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- This README file of IDE286.ZIP accompanies IDE.OBJ and IDE.DSK for
- NetWare v2.X. The following files are included for this revision:
-
- IDE OBJ 5705 8-09-91 11:39a
- IDE DSK 963 8-12-91 9:24a
-
- Installation Instructions:
-
- 1) (NetWare v2.2) Copy the IDE.DSK to the SYSTEM-1 diskette
- (NetWare v2.1x) Copy the IDE.DSK to the AUXGEN diskette
-
- 2) (NetWare v2.x) Copy the IDE.OBJ to the DSK_DRV_001 diskette.
-
- 3) (NetWare v2.2) Run INSTALL
- (NetWare v2.1x) Run NETGEN
-
- Notes:
-
- The IDE.OBJ file is a NetWare 2.x disk driver which makes it
- possible to use IDE/ATA type disk drives with file servers using
- the IDE/ATA interface. The new IDE disk driver is very similar to
- the old Netware ISA disk driver. However, one major difference
- must be noted.
-
- The ISA disk driver gets the drive descriptions from a table
- pointed to by Interrupt 41. This table contains a list of disk
- drives used with the old AT type machines. However, not all disk
- drives are listed in the table and these tables vary with different
- BIOS applications.
-
- The IDE disk driver was designed to eliminate this problem. The
- IDE disk driver does not get the drive description from a table.
- It gets the drive descriptions directly from the disk drives at
- initialization time.
-
- When using the IDE disk driver, the following limitations must be
- observed:
-
- * Non-Dedicated NetWare will not work properly on IBM
- Model 35 or IBM Model 40 machines. Data read
- from, or written to floppy disks will be
- corrupted. This problem will be corrected in the
- future.
-
- * The drive type number reported by the INSTALL
- program is generated by the IDE disk driver at
- initialization time and is useful only to the
- NetWare operating system.
-
- * The IDE disk driver will not work with ISA bus
- controllers (i.e. ST506 and ESDI). The IDE/ATA,
- ST506, and ESDI interfaces look similar to the
- system software, but are handled differently by the
- drivers.
-
- * IDE/ATA, ST506, and ESDI hardware is not
- interchangeable.
-
- * The IDE disk driver supports multiple disk drives
- of the same or different types.
-
-
- Note: Although the ISA disk driver appears to work with IDE/ATA
- disk drives, it will not handle errors on these drives correctly.
-