I believe DAT is what you want to tell SCO. -- Matt
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Von Essen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 6:33 PM Subject: Re: hacking SCO.... > Well, > > I was able to get a boot/install floppy made. Then install a fresh SCO. > Then create recovery floppies, then boot with recovery floppy and try > to cpio tape data to /mnt. > > However, in both the recover floppy and the real SCO system I have to > configure the tape drive apparently. As of right now, I can not access > the tape device. > > SCO's tape device builder asks what type of tape, is a DDS-2 considered > DAT or 8mm? > > Anyway, I wish I would of thought of the dd args to skip the bad > sectors and continue on. Now that SCO is installed (which took an hour > and a half) I would hate to start over. The drive is really messed up, > dd would copy a couple thousand records, then the drive would start > making a horrendous noise and through an IO error stopping dd. > > You have no idea how much I hate SCO. I feel like I am cheating on my > girlfriend every time I login to this damn box. > > -john > > > On Sep 27, 2004, at 4:15 PM, Doug Russell wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, John Von Essen wrote: > > > >> I have a new replacement 4Gb disk. With a FreeBSD boot CD I did a dd > >> and was able to get the new disk setup with all of the old disks > >> partition maps, boot data, etc.,. The new disk actually boots into SCO > >> but fails because it only has 100Mb or so of data. > > > > Try adding conv=sync,noerror to your dd line. If most of the > > data > > after the defect(s) can be read, you'll end up with an almost complete > > partition which will likely run. You can then fsck and restore from > > tape. > > > > for example, > > > > dd if=/dev/daX of=/dev/daY conv=sync,noerror bs=128k > > > > Later...... <Doug> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"