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by kevin

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I have a Seagate ST340015A 40GB IDE Hard Disk Drive that will be running under Novell Netware Ver 3.12.

I have set my computer CMOS to auto detect my hard disk setting, it's show 40022 MB / 19158 Cylinder / 16 Head / 1025 Precomp / 19157 LandingZone / 255 Sector. I get 40GB of disk space.

I boot up my computer with MS-DOS 6 and do a fdisk. I only manage to get 8GB of disk space.

I also boot up my computer with Window 98 and do a fdisk, select Yes for enable large disk. I also manage to get 8GB of disk space. I set my dos partition for 50MB of disk space and format the drive with MS-DOS 6.0 system.

I put in Novell install diskette into drive A and run install follow the system 1, system 2 and Unicode. After all this, I was askfor the server name and internal address of which I have done. Load ide and select default. Load install and do a NetWare partition. Then I do a volume and create sys, I encounter error message which look like this.

Description
Error allocatingmemory for FAT table

Severity
Warning - Program execution may not continue normally

What is this mean? It's regarding my memory and my partition is wrong? Please advice.

Do I have to set CMOS to manual?

Thank you.

KEVIN LEONG

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by pierrejamme

It has been many years since 3.2 but here goes.
If I understand your question correctly, try this. NetWare only wants the DOS partition determined by fdisk. NetWare will use un-used space into the SYS volume.
Go back into fdisk and delete any partitions other than the 50MB DOS partition. Then re-run install.bat.

by pgm554

The original install program for 3.x will not recognize anything above 8.4 gigs.

Win98 dos is not dos and will not work with
Netware at all(it loads a memory manger which Novell does not like).

Can you use the 40gb drive? Yes ,but it ain't easy
or simple.

A fast and easier method would be to do this:

1)Use an IDE 8.4 gig or less disk.
2)Install NW3.x
3)Apply ALL patches (you need the new NWPA and ide drivers to "see" all of the 40 gig drive.
If you have a Promise card(IDE)youcan use it for the second ide controller(I reccommend not slaving the 2 off the same ide channel)
4)On the 40 gb drive make it a different volume (Vol1).

That is the easy way.
Imagine what the "hard" way is like.

Or just go SCSI and save yourself the hassle.

by sgt_shultz

i think the problem is that your current ide controller doesn't support talking to a drive that large. Purchase a $20-$60 add-in ide controller compatible with your new drive...

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