Especially for servers put HD's on one SCSI channel and other SCSI devices
(CD Rom's and Tape drives) on another.  The 2940 is a great card (I use them
in my servers) but you need two for your configuration.  One for the HD's
and another for the tape drive and CD Rom.  With NetWare stay away from 
IDE CD Rom drives.  Servers are something you should NOT skimp on.  Put 
in another and you will be happy.

On another note, for NetWare you MUST make sure you have BIOS translation
for drives larger than 1Gb turned off BEFORE you create the partitions
(DOS and NetWare).  NetWare drivers use the drives actual parameters
(like Unix drivers do) and if you have translation turned on you WILL have
data corruption.  Of course when you change the setting all data on the drive
is destroyed so be careful with it.


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>>> [log in to unmask] 2/15/01 6:53:03 PM >>>
Greetings all:

  My question concerns a Netware 4.11 server (64mb RAM) w/ an external tape
backup running off an Adaptec 2940 scsi card.  The card also supports two
internal, 8gb, mirrored drives.  All devices are numbered as follows:  HD
boot = 0  HD mirror = 1  CD = 2  Scorpion Ext. tape = 3  Scsi card = 7

We get server abends about every 2 or 3 weeks at the end of the midnight
backup.  Didn't used to be an issue until about a month after installing the
backup.  Documentation that came with the external drive cautioned that
server abends could occur if "Parity Disabled" were not selected on the SCSI
card.

Here's one problem:  I go to the SCSI's bios setup and select "Disabled" in
the field where parity checking is....reboot... go immediately back to the
SCSI bios to check...ENABLED!!!

It doesn't want to accept the change.  Anybody have any tips?  We're using
Veritas latest version (8.5) and I have a plain and simple -- back it all
up, boot everyone off, no grooming, no rotation...plain and simple setup for
the sake of the owners of this small operation.

The server's error log reports:
Volume mount had the following errors that were fixed:
Problem with file Q_0109.SRV, (TTS file...was not changed)
   length kept = 0, had allocated = 65536
Problem with file QTC_TEMP.002, length exteded.
Problem with file QTC_TEMP.002, old length = 0, new length = 65536

....    more qtc_temp files w/ new lengths

Problem with file FD046272.FDD, length extended.
Problem with file FD046272.FDD,  old length = 0, new length = 1966080

Problem with file Q_0123.SRV, (TTS file...was not changed
   length kept = 0, had allocated = 65536

...   two more Q_.SRV files of similar description were reported...


tia...gary r. tennesen
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