Microtest CD Diskport Tower model SP85-SMS9

I was given a free Microtest CD DiskPort Tower Model SP85-SMS9
It has 7 NEC Narrow Scsi Cd-rom drives inside along with a Scsi to
Ethernet bridgeboard which has both a RJ-45 and a BNC connector. I
connected it to my lan and it constantly queries for DHCP address.
Dhcpd keeps giving it one but it seems to be ignoring it. I heard it
may be for Novell Netware (IPX). Before I even begin settng up IPX.
does anyone know anything about the thing? For example:
Can it be set up to work via NFS? Baring that. how do I access
the drives from LINUX using IPX? Is there special passwords needed?
The drives are standard Scsi so I know I can use it with a
regular Scsi host adaptor but I would like to try it in its factory
configuration before I start making changes to the unit.
Now if I must use it with IPX does anyone have any
documentation on setting it up? Its a network based CD-rom server.
Trust me, seven CDs on my lan would be a godsend!
Now since it has 7 Scsi Cd drives is there a bridgeboard which
connects all 7 CDs as Drive addresses to Logical unit numbers? That
way I only need to set the box to one Scsi address say 3 and access
the drives as
Scsi ID Lun
3 0
3 1
3 2
3 3
3 4
..
..
..
3 7

If anyone has the original manual or photocopy of it and any
original software it needs. please email me.
Likewise if you have that Scsi converter that converts
addresses to LUNs.


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