GF> On 28 Dec 97 11:18am, Chris Holten wrote to George Fliger:
 GF> I will happily stand by my claims and enjoy the 
 GF> fact that my clients are
 CH> George, you and Mike Bilow can't even make your theories about
 GF> I do Novell and NT servers for breakfast everyday.  I stay on top of the
 GF> specifications as they happen and I know my field of expertise VERY
 GF> well.
 GF> If you go back and read the ORIGINAL post, I never told the guy to get
 GF> rid of his 6.4GB drive.  I said he really should follow Novell's
 GF> guidelines for his server, meaning SCSI, not IDE.  It's his choice if he
 GF> wishes to not follow recommendations (like so many others).  I merely
 GF> stated the obvious based on factual evidence and recommendation by the
 GF> people who write the NOS, nothing more -- nothing less.
Oh, excuse me. I thought that if he followed your advice, which was following 
Novell's guidelines "meaning SCSI, not IDE" that was the same thing as saying 
that he shouldn't use his existing SCSI drive. Must be the english dialect I 
am reading which isn't the one you are apparently using.
Any body that does servers "for breakfast" should know that Novell has been 
working fine with IDE and large IDE for several years now and that novell 
drivers for Busmasting EIDE motherboards are standard distribution. I am not 
disputing that a really good fast SCSI setup, if cost and practicality and 
individual application are no object, isn't "the best". What I am disputing 
is that the performance comparisons mentioned in this conference and Novell's 
logic are based on 3-10 year old technology and relative performance numbers, 
which has -always- been Novell's mentality. With the great leaps and bounds 
both CPU's and EIDE hosts have made this past year, one needs to re-think 
one's philosophy, especially where a dedicated novell file print server is 
concerned.
That's why if you go back to my original message, you will note the comments 
I made about Novell's archaic institionalized approach and their sustained 
and well deserved rapidly shrinking market share. 
The point being that you can have 1 years experience 30 times are 30 years 
experience 1 time. As rapidly as it changes with small computer systems, be 
keerful which side of that fence you have breakfast on George or you, like 
Novell, might get left behind.
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