Q: Adding 80GB IDE TO Netware 5.0 SP6.0

[dhibbeln]

Hi folks,
I am in the middle of a forensics gig on a netware 5.0 box. We know the strings of the document we are searching for.

We have been able to use strsch (fast test string search - 4GB in 30 mins) from

http://www.mares.com

and salvslist from JRBuitls to search the active files and determine that there about 750,000 deleted files still on one of the volumes.

We are planning to use portlock storage manager to image the drive prior to doing a salvage on the deleted files and directories as to not mess up the volumes with old data.

The target box is a compaq proliat1 1900 with a logical hardware raid (5?) spanning 3 9 gig phyiscal SCSI drive seen as a C: drive on boot with sys and vol1 netware partions.

On a tesbox with an adapted RAID (mirror) We cabled up an 8OGB IDE drive, fdisked and formated in dos 6.22. We can see C: and D: in Caldera DR-DOS boot.

In NWCONFIG - I seem unable to see the new drive in order to
create a netware volume or partion on the new drive. I recall an issue many moons ago with IDE drivers and I think it was NW 4.11.

Any thoughts, directions?

Regards,
David R. Hibbeln
email: drh hibbeln net (fill in the spaces)

 

[TheLad]

Firstly, the IDE disk has to be blank - you cannot use DOS partitions as NetWare will want to create a NetWare partition on the disk.

You are correct as you do have to use IDEATA.HAM in conjunction with PORT and INT numbers (probably best to load it without so it can prompt you with what it finds). The command to load IDEATA.HAM has to be in the STARTUP.NCF file (line is something like this: LOAD IDEATA.HAM PORT=1F0 INT=E)

Once the disk is cabled up and the server can see it within NetWare, you can use NWCONFIG to create a NetWare partition on the disk. Once this is done, you can create volumes etc.... however I would not extend an existing volume across this disk as the volume will not mount once you remove the IDE disk.

One thing, Compaq say that you cannot connect IDE drives to a server, well you can but they just don't support such a configuration.

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[dhibbeln]

Thank much, the lad

I suspected as much. my netware stuff is rusty.
I also always used SCSI in novell boxes, never ever used on pain of death IDE in a production box. Will test and advise what happens.

This one of those wonderful legacy gigs where the hardware is not supported, the NOS and the backup (arcserve) is not supported and the box was mothballed (literally with them) since early 2002.

Its becomeing a good test of memory recall and stagnant internet research. Its also been a valuble lesson in keeping old boxes with old NOS and OS's on them in your personal storage closet <grin>



Regards,
David R. Hibbeln