Same here - I thought I killed my 8KTA+ when I was switching out the CPU fan and gave the silicon a bit of a hard hit when the screwdriver I was using slipped. Ended up buying a Soyo KT333 board (after cursing my clumsyness & enduring jeers from a co-worker for slaying my main box) and didn't notice the capacitors until after I was back up and running.
The shocking part is how little Novell servers manage to stay up. How many goverment institutions do I know that just bought those? That's pathetic. I knew that Netware was a pain to run, but I didn't know is was that tought to maintain.
You must not be doing it right and/or had no idea what to do with it. Netware is still one of the most stable and secure file/print services available out there - see topic "No Netware?" at the top of the list. There is, however, argument for the fact that Netware 4.0 was unstable. Novell was in their very early testing of NDS and did have some rather large problems adjusting it to the idea of a directory.
But, this time spent tweaking and fixing has paid off in spades. I believe intraNetware 4.11 and higher is absolutely rock solid. I wouldn't trust any large user base (50+) on NT boxes. Use NT for what it is good for, the Microsoft catch-22 knows as Back Office.
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Same here - I thought I killed my 8KTA+ when I was switching out the CPU fan and gave the silicon a bit of a hard hit when the screwdriver I was using slipped. Ended up buying a Soyo KT333 board (after cursing my clumsyness & enduring jeers from a co-worker for slaying my main box) and didn't notice the capacitors until after I was back up and running.
The shocking part is how little Novell servers manage to stay up. How many goverment institutions do I know that just bought those? That's pathetic. I knew that Netware was a pain to run, but I didn't know is was that tought to maintain.
You must not be doing it right and/or had no idea what to do with it. Netware is still one of the most stable and secure file/print services available out there - see topic "No Netware?" at the top of the list. There is, however, argument for the fact that Netware 4.0 was unstable. Novell was in their very early testing of NDS and did have some rather large problems adjusting it to the idea of a directory.
But, this time spent tweaking and fixing has paid off in spades. I believe intraNetware 4.11 and higher is absolutely rock solid. I wouldn't trust any large user base (50+) on NT boxes. Use NT for what it is good for, the Microsoft catch-22 knows as Back Office.
Leave the file serving to the real file server.