[WEB4LIB] CD tower

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It sounds like you only have one SCSI card and it is my understanding
that a SCSI card will only support 7 devices.  I have a 28CD tower that
uses 4 cards on the computer and I have two use two SCSI cards on a
backup NT server to handle a tower of 14 CDs.  Your previous system may
have had special software to work with Netware and one card.

"Gary E. Masters" wrote:
> 
> We are trying to put our CD tower (Procom) on a Gov Docs. workstation since
> we don't use it with the server and we have several CD's that we get from
> the government.  The problem is that Windows will recognize only seven of
> the 21 drives.  All 21 are recognized when the unit boots up, but somewhere
> after that they are lost.  Our first software was a product called Opti-Net
> and it worked directly with NetWare.  Is there a way to use it with
> Windows?  Or is there any share ware out there that does that?  When we try
> to get to the "missing" drives in DOS, we get a system crash.  Procom told
> us to use a different SCSI card, but we have not been able to try that
> option.  We have an Adaptec card now.  We fixed a pushed back pin on the
> middle LUN unit and that fixed it.  Before then we could see only 14 of 21
> when we booted.
> 
> Our tower is out of warranty.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gary Masters
> 
> Gary E. Masters
> Automated Services Librarian
> Texas A&M International University
> (956) 326-2137 (voice)
> (956) 326-2399 (fax)

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