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by tbradley

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OK, we own a procom E1 7 drive cdrom tower.
Current Diskview software is v5.60.

Our network is 100% Novell 5.0 sp4, and procom and diskview both state that this tower model is not supported under NW5.0, only Novell 4.11 or NT.

I know I've got the option of setting up an NT server, or revert back to a 4.11, but don't want to confuse the mix. Having a CD-rom is not worth the hassle, yet I hate to toss a good piece of equipment. Any suggestions or back door options to get around the "other guy" tech support issue?

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by mike_lucey

This isn't really an answer, but ... have you actually tried the tower and failed to make it work? Most stuff that works with 4.11 works with 5.0 too, as long as you still have IPX on the wire.

by acurrin

Since the tower is SCSI, you can usually attach a server independent device like an AXIS Storpoint to the SCSI chain in place the DISCPort device it is using.

We have done this on numerous occasions to get the CD-ROMs file systems off of our servers.

The AXIS Storpoints act as a NetWare or NT server or both on your network.

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