Novell Netware 4.11? Hm. It's from the mid-90s.
I guess that SCSI drives were normally used back then in such an environment ?

It's just a wild guess, though. 5 GB were still big back then.

Oh so you assume it's a limitation of the Novell IDE driver?

It definitely seems like an OS detection/limitation issue just did a test with vmware it's the same max size is 131069.3 MB 😦 FUUUU

Novell is a maze, it's not that clearcut regardless that this is the 4.11 intranetware, intranetware already has patches in it and I installed the 6SP which patches it even more.

Back then they backported shitload of stuff from higher versions into the patches to keep it "LTS" 😁

Patching this is an absolute fucking nightmare as all other components like the webserver, groupware, border manager etc has their own patches.

I played around these a bit, it's actually pretty bad you need to go up to version 6.0 to have large drives recognized properly:

NetWare 6.0
NetWare 6 was released in October 2001, shortly after its predecessor. This version has a simplified licensing scheme based on users, not server connections. This allows unlimited connections per user to any number of NetWare servers in the network.[23] Novell Cluster Services was also improved to support 32-node clusters;[24] the base NetWare 6.0 product included a two-node clustering license.

Considering this yeah that 120gb cap in 2k1 is quite understandable 😁

As for SCSI I couldn't test it, it didn't like my vmware.

I expect NetWare 4.11 will handle large SCSI disks just fine - its a better designed interface than IDE, and very large SCSI attached storage devices would have been achievable even in the 90s if you had the money thanks to SCSI-attached array controllers.