Lost Disk Capacity
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Feb 2002
Q.
I have a 40GB hard drive that I am trying to use with NetWare v4.10. The problem is that NetWare v4.10 only sees the drive as 8GB. I have tried using the same drive with Windows 98, which recognizes the full 40GB. I even tried using the 40GB Windows partition with NetWare v4.10, but NetWare v4.10 doesn't recognize the partition. Any help would be appreciated.
Lost in Louisiana
A.
Dear Lost: The problem you are seeing is a known NetWare problem that is present in original shipping versions of NetWare 3.12, 3.2, 4.10 and 4.11. This is a problem that affects IDE hard disk drives only; SCSI drives do not have the problem, so I am going to assume that you have an IDE drive.
The good news is this problem has been fixed. It affects the IDEHD.CDM and IDEHD.DDI disk drivers. The simplest way to fix the problem is to download the current support pack for NetWare 4.x, NW4SP9.EXE, which is at http://support.novell.com.
Might I suggest that you install the complete support pack, as many of the components of NetWare 4.x have been updated.
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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