HP Novell NetWare 6.5 6.5 manual System is running with the IDEATA.HAM driver dated

Issue 12	CD volumes not mounting after installing NetWare Service Pack 6 on NetWare 5.1 English Only installations
	causes upgrade to NetWare 6.5 to fail
	Description	During an SP6 installation on NetWare 5.1 English Only OS installations, answering
		"NO" when prompted to update the Storage/LAN/PSM/WAN drivers causes CD
		volumes not to mount. NetWare 5.1 English Only contains an IDEATA.HAM driver dated
		1998 (IDECCD.CDM is also outdated). SP6 installs a newer driver to
		c:\nwserver\drivers which does not get loaded by default since the OS server path
		detects the 1998 version in c:\nwserver and loads that version. With the 1998 version,
		the command "Load CDROM" does not Mount the CD volume. The problem is intensified
		when changing CDs, as required, during an upgrade to NetWare 6.5.
	Workaround	Once the OS has booted/loaded with the 1998 version of the IDEATA.HAM driver, the
		CD-ROM commands to load/unload CD9660.nss or load/unload CDROM do not
		necessarily mount or dismount the CD volumes. The command Load CDINST.NLM
		occasionally works to mount the CD volume. However, there is no reliable workaround.
	Solution	Copy the driver files (IDEATA.HAM and IDECD.CDM) from c:\nwserver\drivers to
		c:\nwserver after SP6 has been installed. When the server is restarted, the new drivers
		will load. This step should be done before starting an upgrade to NetWare 6.5 if your
		system is running with the IDEATA.HAM driver dated 1998.
Issue 13	NetWare 6.5 does not support boot from USB CD-ROM devices
	Description	Systems that do not have an IDE or SCSI CD-ROM drive cannot boot the NetWare 6.5
		media because Novell does not support USB CD-ROM during boot.
	Workaround	Perform an over-the-wire installation, or use an IDE or SCSI CD-ROM to install
		NetWare 6.5.
	Solution	Novell plans to release a bootable ISO CD image with SP1 that will support USB
		CD-ROM devices. Once the bootable image has loaded, the installation can continue
		with the base NetWare 6.5 media.
Issue 14	IPX cannot be bound to more than one NIC during installation
	Description	During installation, IPX cannot be bound to more than one NIC when also binding IP.
	Workaround	Do not attempt to bind IPX on more than one NIC until after the installation has
		completed and the server is running.
	Solution	This problem appears to be a resource allocation issue and will be fixed in a future
		Novell Support Pack Overlay CD. However, this issue will always be present in the base
		media.
Issue 15	Problem with N100.LAN loading with some server ROMS
	Description	N100.LAN may fail to load on some ProLiant servers with down-level ROM revisions.
	Workaround	See Solution.
	Solution	Download and flash the server ROM to the latest revision. To download the latest server
		ROMs, visit http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/romtabl.html.
Issue 16	Downgrade messages may appear during upgrade from NetWare 5.1 or NetWare 6
	Description	Upgrades from NetWare 5.1 (with SP 6 or later applied) or from NetWare 6 (with SP3
		or later applied) causes a downgrade message for NCMCON.CFG to appear.

NCMCON.CFG on SmartStart 6.40 and PSP 6.41 is a newer version (dated May 2003) than the one located on the NetWare 6.5 base media (dated March 2003). The CFG file contains PCI IDs that identify the cards installed in the server through NCMCON.NLM. Without the PCI IDs, NCMCON displays cards and slots as unknown devices; however, this classification does not affect the hot plug functionality of the card or slot.

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