| Title: | FDDI - The Next Generation | 
| Moderator: | NETCAD::STEFANI | 
| Created: | Thu Apr 27 1989 | 
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 2259 | 
| Total number of notes: | 8590 | 
    Hi ,
    
    A customer is installing the Novell Netware ODI Server V4.1 with
    DEFPA-UA,they can not successfully install it. The error messages
    is:"Initalize failure".But they successfully installed the Netware SFT
    III MSL V4.1 and Netware Dos ODI client with the same card.Who can tell
    me what other driver should we provide for the customer or some other
    suggestions? It's very urgent.
    
    Thanks in advance.
    Best Rgds,
    Janet
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| 2128.1 | NETCAD::STEFANI | Tue Sep 03 1996 11:33 | 12 | ||
|     >>A customer is installing the Novell Netware ODI Server V4.1 with
    >>DEFPA-UA,they can not successfully install it. The error messages
    >>is:"Initalize failure".But they successfully installed the Netware SFT
    >>III MSL V4.1 and Netware Dos ODI client with the same card.Who can tell
    >>me what other driver should we provide for the customer or some other
    >>suggestions? It's very urgent.
    
    Which version of DEFPA.LAN are you using?  Have you already fetched the
    latest DEFPA driver kit (v2.7) from the Easynet or Internet?  What
    version of MSM.NLM and FDDITSM.NLM are you using?
    
    - Larry
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| 2128.2 | TRITON chipset? | 31224::HARRIS_MA | Sales Executive II | Wed Sep 04 1996 14:08 | 4 | 
|     Does the Intel-based server use the TRITON chipset? You need hardware
    DEFPA revision E01 or later with TRITON chipsets.
    
    mark
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| 2128.3 | NETCAD::STEFANI | Wed Sep 04 1996 14:24 | 16 | ||
|     Mark,
    
    >>Does the Intel-based server use the TRITON chipset? You need hardware
    >>DEFPA revision E01 or later with TRITON chipsets.
    
    If the system used Triton and he had the older DEFPA, *none* of the
    drivers would have worked.  Since two of the three drivers worked, it's
    not likely to be a hardware issue.  One major difference between the
    original DEFPA.LAN driver and the MSL and ODI client drivers is that the
    DEFPA.LAN driver memory-mapped the adapter registers.  This caused a
    lot of interoperability problems with NetWare 4.1 and systems with
    certain BIOS's, which is why I changed the driver to use I/O mapping.
    
    That's why I need to know which version of the driver they're using.
    
    - Larry                                                     
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