Unfortunately, I have inherited a Intel P200 with SCO OpenServer 5.0.4
with a 4Gb SCSI drive.
I have to get the machine back up and running. Here is my dilemma and
progress:
I have a cpio archive on DDS-2 tape that is valid. I have been able to
extract files onto a test disk with FreeBSD.
The
This may be a dumb question, but if you make a cpio tape archive from
data on an SCO system (HTFS filesystem), you can still restore the data
off the tape to another system, like FreeBSD with a UFS filesystem,
right?
And the followup, can FreeBSD run SCO binaries (SCO Unix 5.0.1)? I am
going t
> This may be a dumb question, but if you make a cpio tape archive from
> data on an SCO system (HTFS filesystem), you can still restore the data
> off the tape to another system, like FreeBSD with a UFS filesystem,
> right?
This should work. If you run into any issues they will be incompatibilit
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
Oh, I love replying to my own posts :)
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Doug Russell wrote:
> Try addingconv=sync,noerrorto 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 resto
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 n
I believe DAT is what you want to tell SCO.
--
Matt
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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/inst
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 dis
Well, I eventually got this SCO system working. But today, some errors
appeared:
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
E
> Well, I eventually got this SCO system working. But today, some errors
> appeared:
>
> 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
> HTF
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, John Von Essen wrote:
> Well, I eventually got this SCO system working. But today, some errors
> appeared:
>
> 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 whil
Doug Russell wrote:
>
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, John Von Essen wrote:
>
> > Well, I eventually got this SCO system working. But today, some errors
> > appeared:
> >
> > 505k:unrecover error reading SCSI disk on 0 Dev - 1/42
> > cha = 0 id = 0 1 on = 0
> > Block 6578
> > medium error unrecovered read
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Sergey Babkin wrote:
> Try to use the "Verify" menu from the Adaptec BIOS. It finds and tries
> to re-map the bad sectors (it tries to preserve data during this too,
> unless the sector is completely unreadable).
The verify commands issued by the BIOS are virtually useless co
I was able to use the badtrk utility in SCO to identify bad blocks and
put them in the bad block table.
The SCSI card is an old Adaptec, AIC-7880 and I believe it does not
support automatic bad block detection/redirection.
This disk came from a spares kits, so even though it is "new" and never
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, John Von Essen wrote:
> The SCSI card is an old Adaptec, AIC-7880 and I believe it does not
> support automatic bad block detection/redirection.
If it has a BIOS it should have the verify tool in there...
All the verify tool does, though, is issue a verify command to each
se
Gotta love when you reply to your own posts... :)
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Doug Russell wrote:
> If it has a BIOS it should have the verify tool in there...
>
> All the verify tool does, though, is issue a verify command to each
> sector. You can do this yourself, even on a running system, also.
I
> > This may be a dumb question, but if you make a cpio tape archive from
> > data on an SCO system (HTFS filesystem), you can still restore the data
> > off the tape to another system, like FreeBSD with a UFS filesystem,
> > right?
>
> This should work. If you run into any issues they will be i
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