bernt@wolfen.cc.uow.oz (Bernt Ribbum) (08/08/90)
(This is a repost, the first was rejected...!) Hello Networld! We have just bought release 3.0 of DR's Concurrent DOS 386, and I try to make our Novell network talk to it. Anybody with experience? The network is Novell version 2.15, and from plain DOS (3.x or 4.x) it runs by installing the drivers IPX.COM, NETBIOS.EXE and then calling on of the shells NET3 or NET4 depending on DOS version. The CDOS manual tells me to install IPX.COM from the CCONFIG.SYS file, and then start the special command processor called NETWARE, running NET3 from within this. (CDOS is DOS 3.x-compatible except for extended disk partitions, as far as I know). It simply doesn't work - the PC crashes (have to use the main switch) with the message "can't find any network servers". (I have tried booting the machine using DOS 3.31 and DOS 4.01 prior to loading CDOS, but to no avail. Both versions run Novell alone, however.) (BTW: I'm using a Zenith Z-386 SX) If you have any suggestions, please mail (or post, if you think the solution is of general interest)! Thanks, -- _ /_) _ _ _ _/ Bernt Ribbum, Dept of Elec & Comp Eng, Univ of Wollongong /_) (-'/ '/ > ( PO.Box 1144, Wollongong NSW 2500, AUSTRALIA ------------ ---------------- bernt@wolfen.cc.uow.edu.au ----------------------------- -- _ /_) _ _ _ _/ Bernt Ribbum, Dept of Elec & Comp Eng, Univ of Wollongong /_) (-'/ '/ > ( PO.Box 1144, Wollongong NSW 2500, AUSTRALIA ------------ ---------------- bernt@wolfen.cc.uow.edu.au -----------------------------
frotz@drivax.UUCP (Frotz) (08/11/90)
bernt@wolfen.cc.uow.oz (Bernt Ribbum) writes:
]We have just bought release 3.0 of DR's Concurrent DOS 386, and I try to
]make our Novell network talk to it. Anybody with experience?
Our tech support uses it all the time. They say that
they have no problems with it.
]It simply doesn't work - the PC crashes (have to use the main switch)
]with the message "can't find any network servers".
](I have tried booting the machine using DOS 3.31 and DOS 4.01 prior to
]loading CDOS, but to no avail. Both versions run Novell alone, however.)
](BTW: I'm using a Zenith Z-386 SX)
The suggestion is that you do the following:
1) Disable *all* high memory (>640K && <1M). This will force
CDOS to not use or load anything into that region.
2) Reboot and reload Novell via the NETWARE command (check your
manual for the actual name).
If this works, then they say that your card is "memory addressed",
and when you have this memory enabled for Concurrent's use, the
netware driver will stomp all over the OS.
The general tech support concensus is that your Novell cards
should be IO addressed, and NOT memory addressed. If you have a
memory addressed card, you will need to disable the memory used
by the card so that CDOS will not load itself there.
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