CompuServe Thread

#Novell Compatible Driver

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#4361From: Timothy M. MilzMay 13, 1995 8:54 PM
Hello everyone – I'm not sure where to even start for this one, so I'll try this forum: I'm trying to locate a Novell compatible CDROM driver for an IDE Sony CDROM. Novell can only mount a CD as a volume if the interface is SCSI, unless a compatible Novell driver can be used. Does anyone know if there is a driver like this available, or do I have to get a SCSI CDROM. I'm currently using Novell 4.1. Thanks for your help – Tim
#4370From: Jack [ Trantor Systems ]May 15, 1995 12:07 AM
>> I'm trying to locate a Novell compatible CDROM driver for an IDE Sony >> CDROM. Novell still supports only SCSI CD-ROM drives on their servers, and I haven't heard of any third party software for IDE drives at all. Problem with them is the single-threaded nature of the IDE interface… SCSI can handle multiple devices and requests and IDE can't really do that.
#4394From: Timothy M. MilzMay 15, 1995 8:20 PM
Thanks for the info — what a bummer.