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- Number: A1TH082390U423
- Subject: Loading ISADISK at Alternate Settings
- Date: December 20, 1990
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- GENERAL
- INFORMATION: A customer had the following configuration:
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- ISADISK from NetWare 386 v3.1 or v3.0
- WD1003V-MM1 HD controller, Seagate ST-4096 drive
- Aroma computer (C&T chipset and AMI BIOS)
- Selected drive type 35
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- PROBLEM: The customer can load and run NetWare without problems using
- the standard configuration (I/O=1F0, IRQ=14). He can also
- change the interrupt to 15 (a hardware modification), load
- it, and the file server runs fine.
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- The problem starts when he changes a jumper on the
- controller card to select a secondary I/O address of 170
- using either interrupt. In INSTALL, selecting any disk
- option causes "disk cannot be found". He also said he
- patched ISADISK to work at 170, but then it won't work at
- 1F0.
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- The NetWare 386 v3.1 System Administration manual pg 134
- indicates that I/O address 170 should work. This appears to
- be either a flaw in documentation or a bug in ISADISK.
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- SOLUTION: It is neither a flaw in documentation nor a bug in ISADISK.
- Novell only supports Compaq's secondary ISA disk controller.
- Any other disk controller must go through IMSP certification
- before it will work reliably with NetWare.
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- (X) This information was verified verbally
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- (X) This information was verified by Engineering.
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