During the installation of OES NetWare, the installation program automatically detects the .CDM drivers needed for your system. What type of hardware do .CDM drivers support?

WAN communication devices use dedicated WAN drivers (WANDs), which are a separate driver category from CDMs.

Peripheral devices such as printers use their own print drivers loaded through the NetWare print subsystem, not CDM drivers.

Storage adapters such as SCSI host bus adapters are supported by HAM (Host Adapter Module) drivers, which is the layer above CDM in the storage stack.

Network boards and LAN communication devices are driven by LAN drivers (NLMs), a completely separate driver category.

CDM drivers operate at the device layer of the NetWare storage I/O stack and communicate directly with physical storage devices such as hard disk drives and CD-ROM drives. They work in tandem with HAM (Host Adapter Module) drivers, where the HAM controls the storage adapter and the CDM controls the individual devices attached to it. This two-layer architecture allows any CDM to function with any compatible HAM, providing hardware flexibility.

Multiprocessor and special vendor hardware configurations are handled by the Platform Support Module (PSM), not CDM drivers.