Specifications

When preparing your SCSI hard disk drives for mirroring, follow
these guidelines:
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Make the NetWare partitions about the same size. You cannot
mirror partitions that vary greatly in size. See the NetWare
installation manual for limitations.
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You must connect the SCSI hard disk drives to the same SCSI
adapter card.
Install mirroring after you install the SCSI driver and the ASPI
NetWare Manager. Follow these steps:
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Insert the ASPI NetWare Manager diskette into drive A.
Start the SERVER.EXE program. You are prompted for a file
server name and an IPX internal network number. See your
NetWare 386 documentation for details on using the SERVER
program.
At the NetWare 386 prompt (:), use the LOAD command to
install the mirroring file INSTALL.NLM. Type the following:
LOAD INSTALL
From the Installation Options menu, select Disk Options.
From the Available Disk Options menu, select Partition Tables.
The Available Disk Drives menu lists all the hard disk drives
installed in your file server.
Follow the instructions in your NetWare installation manual
to create NetWare partitions on each hard disk drive.
After partitioning the drives, return to the Available Disk
Options menu and select Mirroring. The Partitioning
Mirroring Status menu lists the partitions on the drives to be
mirrored.
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Installing Software Drivers for Novell NetWare 286/386