HP ProLiant 4500 Compaq Tips and Tricks for NetWare 5 - Page 20

Compaq Tips and Tricks for NetWare 5 20 devices, LIST STORAGE ADAPTERS is much faster. The list displays both bound devices and unbound devices and their identification numbers. Wow! Instant updating! • To access your array adapters, use CPQARRAY.HAM. Most of you already know this. But did you know that with a little more than a snap of the fingers you can update CPQARRAY.HAM in memory. That's right! Just copy the driver to the server, and type CPQARRAY.HAM. Done! There's no need to unload and reload drivers while the server is running. And yes, this works for CPQFC.HAM, CPQSCSI.HAM, and actually, any CPQ*.HAM. • Compaq valued-add drivers give you the ability to remove or add a single instance of a driver, called instance unloading and loading. To remove a single instance of an adapter driver (.HAM) so that the card can be removed or replaced, type REMOVE STORAGE ADAPTER=ADAPTER_ID. By doing instances unload of a driver, identical devices that use the same driver are unaffected. This way, you can replace a single failed adapter while allowing the others to maintain server ready. • The ADAPTER_ID parameter is user specified. If you do not know in which slot the card you need resides or if you don't know your adapter identification, use the LIST STORAGE ADAPTERS command to view all installed storage controllers, their locations, and their IDs. Some NSS tips. Did you know that the 64-bit Novell Storage Services (NSS) can't recognize an older 12-bit FAT system? That's right. Truly a powerful, indexed-storage solution, NSS shatters current file limitations and remount times. So, naturally, it requires a more powerful, later model engine, like (1) Caldera 7.02 or later, (2) MS-DOS 6 or later, or (3) Novell DOS 7 (NDOS7) or later. Simply put: only 16-bit FAT systems can be used with NetWare 5. Maybe that's one of the reasons that Novell has conveniently included Caldera 7.02 (formerly called NDOS7) on its NetWare 5 CDROM. Did you know that you can mount any free space on any standard volume as an NSS volume? In fact, in order to take advantage of the added performance and functionality of NSS, you can convert any free space on any standard volume--regardless of the current file system--into an NSS volume. However, only the free space remaining in a volume may be converted; data areas on the drive cannot be converted without destroying the data. Note: See NSS HELP for more information on other structures that can be mounted as NSS volumes. Some CD-ROM tips. • To load CD-ROM support without loading other NSS support, type NSS CD9660 at the server console. Once loaded, the CD-ROM acts as a standard NSS volume allowing PC-compatible CD-ROMs to be made available for clients. • To load CD-ROM support but provide access to MacIntosh formatted CD-ROMs, type NSS CDHFS. The NSS CD-ROM module also supports automatic mounting/dismounting on compact disc eject and insertion. • If you need to mount/dismount both MacIntosh and PC-formatted CD-ROMs, load CDROM.NLM. Some info on partitioning. To easily create multiple partitions under NetWare 5 on a single drive, read further. 118R-1099A-WWEN