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Storage & Device Driver Development

Storage drivers provide low level IO functionality to storage devices through the NetWare driver interface NWPA (NetWare Peripheral Architecture)

What You Can Do

  • Provide hardware access to the operating system.
  • Manage I/O activity at the application level.
  • Build HAM (Host Adapter Module) drivers that will run on NetWare 4.x, NetWare 5.x, and NetWare 6.x Novell operating systems.
  • Build CDM (Custom Device Module) drivers that will run on NetWare 4.x, NetWare 5.x, and NetWare 6.x Novell operating systems.

Build Storage and Device Drivers

Storage Architecture Components (incl. Media Manager and NWPA) - Developer services provides a comprehensive developer kit for storage and device driver development including sample code, header files, specifications, and documentation.

YES Certify Your Storage Devices & Drivers

Storage Test Tools - Developer services provides test tools and methodologies to prepare your storage and device drivers for Novell YES CERTIFIED certification.

Novell publishes information concerning tested and approved products in the form of Bulletins available for viewing and printing from our YES CERTIFIED Bulletin Search site. Bulletins are also included in the world-wide marketing efforts of Novell, Inc.

Find out how YES certification can help you.

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