umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson) (05/29/91)
I've been trying to figure out a nice economical way to set up a nice small Novell 2.2 network, and I can't believe some of the things I'm finding out about Novell! I realize they can't possibly support every single piece of hardware made, but it looks like they don't even support some of the basic stuff! From what I've been told by Novell, and from others, that you can't even use the WD1003/1006 SR2 controller with Novell without a driver from someone else? Come on! This has got to be one of the most popular hard drive controllers ever made and they don't even supply their own driver for it??? They even told me that if the controller had a driver, the actual MFM or RLL hard drive I put on to the controller might not work either! WHAT?!?! How can THAT make a difference??? Am I missing something here? They told me that they supply an ISA hard drive controller driver and any drive that has an entry in the CMOS table would probably work. Does that mean with my AMI bios that allows me to type in the drive's cylinders/heads/precomp/sectors, etc that the WD1003/1006 SR2 might just work? Same goes with IDE? How about Adaptec's RLL controllers? One person there told me that even the type of keyboard you put onto the machine matters!!! Something sounds really wrong here! Is there anyone I can call at Novell to get some FIRM answers to questions? I've talked to two different people in their product information department, they were nice and helpful to a point, but when it came down to asking some nitty gritty details, if it wasn't in their database, they had no idea what to say! I've seen email addresses that are from @novell.com, is there a person I can email questions to that could get me answers? Thanks for anything you can help with! Charles