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NOTE - If you are performing an initial installation of NetWare 5.x/
6.0 and have more than two adapters installed, the install
program will allow you to allocate the actual number of packet
receive buffers needed by the adapter. During installation, the
RxBuffers value should be set to 32, the minimum number of
buffers the driver requires for each adapter. While this setting
affects adapter performance, it allows installation of the operating
system and up to eight adapters during initial install. Once
installation is complete, you need to increase the number of
buffers allocated to the driver, as described in Verifying or
Modifying Adapter Parameters.
15. After NetWare 5.x/6.0 has been successfully installed, set the minimum
packet receive buffers parameter in the startup.ncf file to 1500 for each
adapter in the system. Set the maximum packet receive buffers to three
times the minimum packet receive buffers. Typically 4 MB of RAM is
required per 1000 receive buffers. For more information, see Verifying or
Modifying Adapter Parameters.
16. In the autoexec.ncf file, delete the packet receive buffers parameter
(RxBuffers=32) in the load statement for this adapter. Deleting the receive
buffers phrase from the load statement resets the receive buffers parameter
to the default value of 200 for this adapter.
NOTE - The server needs to be restarted for the new
configuration.
Example: The default maximum number of receive buffers for the system
is 500; the default minimum is 128. Edit the startup.ncf file to have the
following entries. The actual numbers will be a function of the number of
adapters in the system. The following is an example for a system with 8
adapters installed:
set maximum packet receive buffers = 36000
set minimum packet receive buffers = 12000
III. ATI Rage XL Display Driver Installation
User can select the "Super VGA" for the X Server on NetWare 5.x server
system. The other NetWare system didn't support X Server and user didn't
need the VGA driver support.
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Chapter 5: Driver Installation
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