Netware is DOS based.

I would check with your novell REP and find out if they have INTEL SATA HAM drivers for netware. If they do not then you wont be able to use the SATA drives.

Seems to me that NETWARE 5 is near end of life.

Im pretty sure that NETWARE 6.5 has SATA HAM DRIVERS.

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/qna/934.html

http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10097974.htm

Intel 82801Fb Ultra ATA -2651 SATA Controller

NetWare 6.5

NetWare 5.0

NetWare 5.1

symptom

NetWare 6.5 install fails to detect SATA drives

Server reboots during file copy, even after drive detection.

fix

Change the SATA controller to "compatability mode" in the BIOS.

This leads me to believe that the IDEATA.HAM file is the driver used when the system is set to compatability mode.

Message Edited by SpeedStep on 06-18-2005 12:49 PM

Netware 5.0 is a legacy operating system and was not validated by Dell on any Power Edge servers. It had been validated by Novell on some of our legacy servers in the past.

There are 2 problems you can have loading the SATA drivers. The primary problem will be NBI.NLM, Netware Bus Interface. It is the equivalent to the HAL in Windows. When NBI loads it makes calls to the BIOS of the machine to find what advanced buses (PCI, EISA, Plug and Play ISA, etc.) adapters are in the machine. Even if you have the correct driver for SATA, it will not load if the hardware platform is not supported by NBI.NLM.

The other problem you can have is with WS32_32.NLM. This is the Winsock.

Message Edited by DELL-Carrie on 07-07-2005 12:02 PM