WESTERN DIGITAL
             "PLUS"-FAMILY LAN ADAPTER BOARD DRIVERS
                          FOR USE WITH 
 NOVELL ADVANCED NetWare, SFT NetWare, AND ELS NetWare LEVEL II
                     v2.1 AND LATER VERSIONS

                       INSTALLATION GUIDE

This disk provides a single driver for the entire "PLUS" 
(WD8003) family of Western Digital LAN adapter boards for
XT/AT and Micro Channel bus systems:

    StarLAN:    StarCard PLUS  (WD8003S)
                StarLink PLUS  (WD8003SH)
                StarCard PLUS/A  (WD8003ST/A)
    Ethernet:   EtherCard PLUS   (WD8003E, WD8003EBT, WD8003EB)
                EtherCard PLUS/A  (WD8003ET/A, WD8003E/A)
    Ethernet Twisted Pair:
                EtherCard PLUS/TP (WD8003WT)

Included in this subdirectory are the following files:

   INSTALL.DOC     This File.
   RELEASE.DOC     Version number and specific
                     release information.

Included in the root directory are the actual driver files:

   WD8003.LAN                   The LAN driver descriptor file.
   WD8003AD.OBJ                 The Server A-Driver object file.
   WD8003BD.OBJ                 The Server B-Driver object file.
   WD8003CD.OBJ                 The Server C-Driver object file.
   WD8003DD.OBJ                 The Server D-Driver object file.
   WD8003SH.OBJ                 The Shell Driver object file.

                              NOTE

     NetWare installation procedures require the driver files
     listed above to be located in the root directory of a
     floppy disk whose volume label is LAN_DRV_200.  If you 
     copy these files to another floppy disk, be sure that
     you set the volume label of the new disk to LAN_DRV_200.

If you are using NetWare v2.12 or earlier that was purchased 
from Western Digital, the required drivers are already 
pre-installed.  Otherwise, refer to the NetWare Installation
manual and follow the instructions for loading a new LAN driver 
from a floppy disk.  

During software generation, you must choose "Load and Select 
Item" from the "LAN Driver Options" menu.  At the point in the 
procedures where you are directed to select the LAN drivers, the
WD8003 drivers will appear in the list of choices as follows:

                WD Star/EtherCard PLUS


RAM BUFFER SIZE CONFIGURATION INFORMATION

For XT and AT bus boards, there are various configurations of 
the drivers that you can select.  Some are designated for 
adapter boards with 8 Kbyte RAM buffers, and some for boards 
with 32 Kbyte RAM buffers.  

The drivers configured for 32 Kbyte RAM buffers can be used 
with any size RAM buffers.  This is becuase they will 
automatically revert to using 8 Kbyte RAM if they find that 
the adapter board only contains 8 Kbyte RAM or is configured 
to only use 8 Kbyte RAM.


SERVER DRIVER CONFIGURATION

For XT/AT bus servers, choose one of the first 16 configuration
selections that has an appropriate interrupt, I/O Base, and RAM
address.

For Micro Channel bus servers, a Micro Channel configuration
must be selected; these are all described as "Micro Channel
Adapter Auto Configuration".  The usual configuration 
parameters such as interrupt, I/O base address and RAM base 
address have already been established by the system hardware 
configuration procedure when you installed the adapter board 
in your system.

                              NOTE

   If your NetWare server contains more than one Micro Channel 
   LAN adapter board, be sure that you manually selected a 
   different Interrupt Request (IRQ) channel for each adapter
   before running the Novell NETGEN procedure.  To do this, 
   you must use the manual configuration option of the Set 
   Configuration program on your PC system Reference Diskette 
   when you install the boards.


SHELL DRIVER CONFIGURATION

This Western Digital shell driver adapts to Micro Channel bus
boards even if a configuration for an XT/AT bus board was
selected.  The driver makes this adjustment based on the type 
of adapter board that is actually installed in a workstation, 
regardless of the configuration that you selected during the 
NetWare shell generation.

Therefore, if you need a shell driver for both XT/AT and Micro
Channel bus workstations, you may generate one for the XT/AT bus
configuration that you need and use the same driver in your
Micro Channel bus workstations as well.

If an XT/AT bus workstation requires some combination of 
interrupt, I/O Base and RAM address that is not offered in one 
of the 16 configuration choices for XT/AT bus drivers, you can
use the NWPATCH program to create a different configuration.
This patch utility is available from Western Digital.