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6. /LBA:xxxx Enable the Large Capacity Feature(LBA) support for harddisk drives
/LBA:abcd
d: Secondary channel slave drive use LBA Mode?
c: Secondary channel master drive use LBA Mode?
b: Primary channel slave drive use LBA Mode?
a: Primary channel master drive use LBA Mode?
For example:
/LBA:NNYN
will tryto use LBA mode for secondary master drive, and not use LBA
mode for secondary slave drive.
The primary channel LBA feature will be determined by your system BIOS. The
secondary channel LBA feature will depend on your option. If /Ixx is assigned and
BIOS can not handle secondary channel , the secondary channel LBA feature will be
determined by whether /LBA:xxxx is assigned or not. Apparently, If /Ixx is assigned and
BIOS can handle secondary channel, the secondary channel LBA feature is
determined by BIOS.
When to add /LBA:xxxx option? When harddisk drive capacity is greater than 528MB
and drive supports LBA mode, use /LBA:xxxx to enable device driver to utilize the full
capacity of the harddisk drive. The device driver will still use CHS mode to access the
hard disk drive which its capacity is smaller than 528MB or itself does not support LBA
mode.
7. /DRIVE:xxxx
/DRIVE:abcd
d: What kind of secondary channel slave drive is?
c: What kind of secondary channel master drive is?
b: What kind of primary channel slave drive is?
a: What kind of primary channel master drive is?
where a,b,c,d is
H for Hard disk.
C for CD-ROM.
N for NONE.
Note:
1. The primary channel IDE drives type and LBA feature should be correctly set by
system BIOS. (Please refer to the system BIOS SETUP)
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2. There is a limitation of the IDE drives connected to secondary channel. The IDE
drive which does not support identify command or its format is not the same with its
identify information can not be connected to secondary channel. That means if this
drive can not be AUTO detect type by SYSTEM BIOS when it is connected to
primary channel, then it can not be correctly identified by ALIHDD.SYS when it is
connected to secondary channel.
3. Due to the lack of SPEC issue, this driver does not support "Large" mode. Most of
the hard drives that larger than 528 MB support LBA mode, please choose LBA
mode rather than "Large" mode in BIOS setting.
10.2 Installing the drivers forNetWare 386 v3.1x, v4.x
Use the NetWare 386 v3.11 file "SERVER.EXE" to start the installation process. You will be
prompted for a file server name and an IPX internal netwaork number. Consult the
"NetWare 386 User's Manual" for this information.
Installing ALi NetWare driver requires use the "LOAD" console command.
For a complete explanation of "LOAD", see the "NetWare System Administration" manual.
!"
For NetWare 3.1x :
:LOAD [path]ALI312.DSK [parameters]
!"
For NetWare 4.x :
:LOAD [path]ALI4X.DSK [parameters]
Warning!!!
It's improper to switch IDE driver for NetWare server. Please load Ali driver during
installation and keep on using it. If you use other driver and than switch to ALi driver,
the data in hard disk will not be guaranteed to be correct, and vice versa.
