After much stuffing around i finnaly worked out a way to get almost any
cd roms drive to at least work of a novell 2.2 server
i hope this helps out a few guys

My setup was this:

386 33mhz File server  Running Novell 2.2 Non-Dedicated mode
WD-7000 SCSI Host adapter with 3.36 bios roms and drivers
Micropolis 668 M/B SCSI drive  set up as scsi 0,0
NEC 85 CDrom   scsi 3,0
Panasonic CD rom scsi 4,0
Archive 2150L scsi tape streamer 5,0
MAP ASSIST software from Fresh Technologies
PCBoard 14.5/10 from Clark Development
386 40 no hard disk 4 comports desqview 386 2.4 running 4 pcboard nodes

the hard drive is formated and split into 3 Volumes as Netware 2.2 has a limit
of 255 M/B max per volume
The server is booted from floppy disk the config files i was using is something
like this

Dos 5 system on floppy

*config.sys
device=sstbio.sys       wd/sst scsi device driver for host adapter
device=sstcdrom.sys     wd/sst generic cd rom driver

*autoexec.bat
prompt $p$g
set comspec=f:\dos5\command.com      set command.com path to copy of dos 5 on
                                     hard disk stops programs that need to
                                     load command.com going to floppy
net$os                               Novell boot programs  starts fileserver
share /f:4096 /l:60                  Load share.exe this is need to share 
                                     files with other users
mscdex /d:$$TCDROM /m:60 /k /l:d /s     Microsoft Extensions driver
                                        installs cd rom as dos directory
                                        d: and e: for 2nd cd rom drive
net5                                 Load network driver protocol
f:\login\login supervisor            Log in to network
MAHOST                               Map Assist program to install cd rom
                                     as a network drive
                                     there are some switches and options
                                     after mahost read the MAP Assist
                                     manual  Map Assist is available from
                                     Fresh Technologies i do not encourage
                                     Piracy

*include this in workstations autoexec.bat after net.com is loaded
MACLIENT                  Map Assist driver for workstations to access shared
                          CD ROM directory on fileserver

and thats it !!! 2 Different cdroms ,tape drive, scsi hard disk all from
one scsi host adapter one machine   and they say it coulnd't be done.

By   Lucas Lozo     austech computers australia  Another PCBOARD user
     GEnie L.Lozo1