Compaq Deskpro boards/hard drives from the late 1990s

On Fri, 23 Jul 2021 at 18:56, Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: Win95: 13 disks. Win98: 38 disks. Netware 3.1: can't remember... lots: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/diskette-puzzle/ Ha! Trying to google, I found a piece I wrote myself! https://www.theregister.com/Print/2013/07/16/netware_4_anniversary/ I think it was circa 20-25 disks. I remember I had to copy them before installation, in case. And at that time, the DOS 3.3 DISKCOPY command didn't swap to disk or XMS/EMS, and with 640 kB of RAM, copying a 1.4 MB floppy could take 3-4 reads and as many writes. It took me over an entire working day to duplicate all the disks, IIRC. There was, and I think in some markets -- Japan maybe? possibly because of non-adherence to CD standards? -- it was sold on floppies. I also have unpleasant memories of trying to install Slackware from floppies, because it couldn't see my SCSI card, and the only CD-ROM I had was SCSI. The command switches for Linux kernel modules weren't standardised and I couldn't find out how to tell Linux about my cheap & nasty built-in AHA1520 SCSI controller's IRQ and DMA settings. I knew what they were, but I didn't know the syntax to tell the module... -- Liam Proven ? Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lproven at gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven ? Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 ? ?R (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053