Firstly, I'd like to thank everyone at computing.net for all the help. I find this site to be one of the most helpful when doing computer work -- and often find what I need searching through different threads. Thanks guys! My Problem Novel 3.12 is Ancient! (haha...) I have a customer who has a novel 3.12 server that the SCSI Drive is failing on. The computer used EISA, 40Pin SCSI, fan bearings dying etc. SO -- I'm trying (without any luck) to get things transfered over to a new system, IDE Hard Disk. The system has an onboard IDE controller and PCI slots (I think one ISA also). I have *never* used novel, and in just guessing commands managed to learn the "load" commands, and how to use them somewhat. I managed to find an old SCSI card and w/ Acronis mirrored the SCSI drive to the IDE drive. (The partitions were left the same size even though the IDE hard drive is bigger, the rest of the space can just be unused for all I care). The IDE is 14Gig. That managed to at least get me somewhere. I can load the server. That's about it. I managed to remove the SCSI controller from the startup.ncf and been putzing around with ide controller files but can't seem to get anything to work (I think). It asks me Select Port (1f0) and IRQ (e). Basically default accepts w/o errors. Has this accomplished anything? I don't know... I just get back to the prompt. I think the main problem is I am unable to mount the SYS volume (which may also contain all the data for the users?). I try mount all, and I just get "There are no accessible disk drives with the NetWare Partitions." Can anyone suggest how I might either A. load proper IDE drivers and mount the SYS volume that I mirrored, -- OR suggest some other way to get this going? Also does anyone know where I can obtain documentation on Novel 3.12? Nothing on novel's documentation site dates back to B.C.E! Thank you for any help and Merry Christmas.

You'll find documentations her: http://www.novell.com/documentation... >> I try mount all, and I just get "There are no accessible disk drives with the NetWare Partitions." The reason is, that Netware 3.12 stores some physical disk informations somewhere, I don't know where. But when you try to image the netware drive to another harddisk (another physical type of harddisk), the informations of the new drive and the information of the old drive differs and Netware 3.12 is unable to mount the volumes. I got the same problem in the past. I used Symantec Ghost, with the same result. After that, I used Ghost for Netware to image the volumes and got it to work, because Ghost for netware runs at the netware server, that must be fully started. The reason, why you are asked for ide controller address and port is maybe, that there is no IDE driver loaded from the startup.ncf. You can add the following to the startup.ncf, to load the IDE driver automatically: LOAD IDEATA PORT=1F0 INT=E Don't know what to say more at this time. Check out and post back the result or further questions. Paul