505k:unrecover error reading SCSI disk on 0 Dev – 1/42
cha = 0 id = 0 1 on = 0
Block 6578
medium error unrecovered read error
HTFS i/o failure occurred while trying to upgrade 1 node 26302 on HTFS. Dev hd 1/42
Error log over flow block 6578 medium error unrecovered read error .
Do these sound likes hardware errors for the drive or the adaptec card itself? The drive is brand new (well, its actually a replacement from acer with a date code on it from 1998 so it has been sitting in a box for awhile). However, the card is very old too. Any ideas?
-john
On Sep 27, 2004, at 7:24 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
John Von Essen wrote:Unfortunately, I have inherited a Intel P200 with SCO OpenServer 5.0.4 with a 4Gb SCSI drive.
Condolences ! SCO is Horrible to work on, & a waste of time, erase ASAP !
........SCO is of no help, they cant provide replacement boot floppy, only sell
me complete distribution version 5.0.7 for $100.
Any ideas on how I should go about this. All I need to do is get that data from the tape onto the disk and I should good to go.
SCO is of no help, they cant provide replacement boot floppy, only sell
me complete distribution version 5.0.7 for $100.
SCO used to give away licences free for 5.0.4 &/or 5.0.5 for restricted use. One could legally download cdrom images & burn them. Good denough to rescue data & then erase SCO & install BSD
If you can't rescue the data while running FreeBSD, either:
Non Commercial solution: Look around find someone near who has a 5.0.4 or 5 cdrom, (maybe even SCO site somewhere) get a copy, (cdrom contains floppy images too I recall), rescue data, delete SCO very quickly from your machine, (before you discover the pain of running SCO, (& if you really must run SCO then Do get their Skunkware CDROM too (yes that's it's real name! it's full of FSF/GNU stuff & free & makes using SCO rather less unpleasant (not unpleasant, just rather less).
Commercial solution. Pay the $100, if its for a commercial job it's cheap. No point quibbling. SCO used to cost about 2000 German Deutschmarks, for end users, (& was the Unix I found most crippled. BSD is cheaper, but if it's for business, & it's their legal right, cheap enough.
There's SCO forums somewhere, but probably the wrong route. Their manuals used to just present work-rounds for obsolete old software everyone else wasn't using anymore eg at one stage they were SVR3 & all other vendors were SVR4 based. Last time I was contracted to work on SCO, I just kept tossing more modern source eg X11R6 & lesstif & GNU src/ on top of the base obsolete SCO, till obsolete SCO libraries no longer broke my project. Reading SCO manuals was a waste of time, better to just to rip it out & replace it with better software, either per utility that annoys, or per whole OS.
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Julian Stacey. Unix,C,Net & Sys. Eng. Consultant, Munich. http://berklix.com
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