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- We encourage all users to use this newer DCB.DSK disk driver! This is not a patched version of
- the old driver, this is a completely re-written driver. ***PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING
- INFORMATION BEFORE USING THIS NEW DCB.DSK DISK DRIVER!***
-
- When a NetWare 386 partition is created with a drive type defined as Generic SCSI under the
- older DCB.DSK disk driver (date 08/03/89 - file size 16034) and you upgrade to the new
- DCB.DSK disk driver (date 02/06/90 - file size 17331) you will not be able to mount the
- volume(s) on that partition. When attempting to mount the volume(s) you will receive the error:
- "There are no accessible disk drives with NetWare partitions...". When you load the install NLM,
- and go into "Disk Options", "Partition Tables", you will receive the following error: "NetWare 386
- partition relative sector 32 and size XXXXX do not match the ending cylinder XXX, head XX,
- sector XX". You will need to select "Create NetWare Partition" and create a new partition using
- the new DCB.DSK driver mentioned above.
- ***PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE A CURRENT BACKUP OF ALL DATA
- CONTAINED ON THE DRIVE(S) BEFORE CREATING THE NEW PARTITION, AS
- CREATING A NEW PARTITION WILL DESTROY ALL EXISTING DATA, BINDERIES AND
- TRUSTEE ASSINGMENTS INCLUDED!*** After creating the new partition and volume(s), you
- can log in to the server and restore all backed up data.
-
- These changes made to the heads, sectors and cylinders (partion table information) were made to
- adhere as closely as possible to the industry standard partition table information that applies to
- devices that cannot report heads, sectors and cylinders.
-
- We re-emphasize, this applies to GENERIC SCSI ONLY.
-
- May we also re-emphasize that Novell has never claimed that the Generic SCSI option would
- successfully interface with all SCSI type hard drives, nor do we support it that way.
-
- The best option for interfacing larger drives is to purchase a drive from a drive manufacture that
- has a NetWare Ready stamp (indicating the heads, sectors and cylinders) on the drive when
- shipped from the manufacture and selecting the NetWare ready option in Disk Set. This option
- applies to NetWare 386 only!
-