Category Archives: NetWare

NetWare 3.12 vs. Large IDE Disks

Posted on February 1, 2019 by Michal Necasek

Recently I had an occasion to find out why NetWare 3.12 using the shipped IDE driver (IDE.DSK) behaves, very, very strangely when let loose on disks bigger than about 500MB (a very foolish thing to even try). The driver loaded … Continue reading →

Posted in Bugs, IDE, NetWare, PC history | 46 Comments

NetWare for OS/2

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Michal Necasek

NetWare for OS/2 was one of the most technically interesting products of the mid-1990s. Novell’s NetWare was long established as a file server for LANs; since NetWare/386, Novell’s NOS ran as a dedicated server which was loaded from DOS but … Continue reading →

Posted in NetWare, Networking, OS/2 | 2 Comments