muller@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de (Francois Muller) (05/10/91)
I have had some problems with the installation of NOVELL Advanced NetWare on my 386/33 PC-Clone. My PC has got a standard i/o equipment (2 serial cards and 2 parallel) and an IDE-based Seagate HDD with 130 MB. The installation of SHGEN on the workstation worked well. The ethernet cards installation too. The Server configuration worked also (I am thinking so). The problem arised when I started the NetWare installation.After that I had tiped in that I wanted the "standard floppy method" and the default settings, the system said that it will check my hard disk and then I got the mysterious error message:"Abend:Improper ROM Parameter table for DISK controller" and the system hung. Can somebody explain me this error message and suggest me what to do ? Thank you for your help. Bye.
crebettes@cc.curtin.edu.au (05/16/91)
In article <10883@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de>, muller@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de (Francois Muller) writes: > I have had some problems with the installation of NOVELL Advanced NetWare on > my 386/33 PC-Clone. > My PC has got a standard i/o equipment (2 serial cards and 2 parallel) and > an IDE-based Seagate HDD with 130 MB. > The installation of SHGEN on the workstation worked well. > The ethernet cards installation too. > The Server configuration worked also (I am thinking so). > The problem arised when I started the NetWare installation.After that I had > tiped in that I wanted the "standard floppy method" and the default settings, > the system said that it will check my hard disk and then I got the > mysterious error message:"Abend:Improper ROM Parameter table for DISK controller" and the system hung. > > Can somebody explain me this error message and suggest me what to do ? I have experienced a similar problem when I have attempted to install Novell 286 advanced on an IDE drive configured in the BIOS setup as type 47 It seem Novell does not like type 47 drives. I cured the problem by installing it in thiws case as a type 9 which was the nearest type to it I could find. IDE drives apparantly are re-mapped internally so it really does not matter too much which drive type you take as long as it is no bigger than your drives physical capacity. In my case I lost 9 megabytes as I had a 106 Meg drive and the nearest to it was type 9 which was a ninety four meg drive. The only drives I have found that you can install as user defined type 47 are ESDI drives and possibly SCSI drives as well, but I have no experience of those with Novell > > > Thank you for your help. > Bye.