Re: NEC NEAX IVS2 PBX with NEAXMAIL AD-8 - hard drive clone, issues

2020-11-30 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Mon, Nov 30, 2020, 12:34 AM Christian Corti via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Nov 2020, Liam Proven wrote: > > If there are any errors on the drive, I would recommend GNU > > ``ddrescue``. Do not confuse this with the older (but still > > maintained) dd_rescue which is

Re: NEC NEAX IVS2 PBX with NEAXMAIL AD-8 - hard drive clone, issues

2020-11-29 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Sun, 29 Nov 2020, Liam Proven wrote: If there are any errors on the drive, I would recommend GNU ``ddrescue``. Do not confuse this with the older (but still maintained) dd_rescue which is the product that inspired the GNU one; the newer one is more capable. It images but skips and continues

Re: NEC NEAX IVS2 PBX with NEAXMAIL AD-8 - hard drive clone, issues

2020-11-29 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 at 23:33, keith--- via cctalk wrote: > > Hi Liam, > > As stated in my OP, I was using Windows 10 and USB adapters. *Goes back and re-reads* Ah, OK. I did not follow before. I think Windows is a really poor choice for this. Worse, it might have tried to mount the filesystem

Re: NEC NEAX IVS2 PBX with NEAXMAIL AD-8 - hard drive clone, issues

2020-11-28 Thread keith--- via cctalk
ux machine and DD next. -- Message: 5 Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 16:12:39 +0100 From: Liam Proven To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" Subject: Re: NEC NEAX IVS2 PBX with NEAXMAIL AD-8 - hard drive clone issues Message-ID: Content-Type: text

Re: NEC NEAX IVS2 PBX with NEAXMAIL AD-8 - hard drive clone, issues

2020-11-28 Thread keith--- via cctalk
Hi Chris, I will give Linux and DD a try. I do have an USB to 2.5 inch IDE adapter. thanks Keith On 2020-11-28 13:00, cctech-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote: The way I would do that is to use a Linux / unix machine and one of the cheap ebay usb to ide adapters, then use dd to image the

Re: NEC NEAX IVS2 PBX with NEAXMAIL AD-8 - hard drive clone, issues

2020-11-28 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 11/27/2020 05:45 PM, Chris Quayle via cctalk wrote: The way I would do that is to use a Linux / unix machine and one of the cheap ebay usb to ide adapters, then use dd to image the whole drive to a file. That should copy block, including the boot block and partition table. Use the

Re: NEC NEAX IVS2 PBX with NEAXMAIL AD-8 - hard drive clone, issues

2020-11-27 Thread Chris Quayle via cctalk
The way I would do that is to use a Linux / unix machine and one of the cheap ebay usb to ide adapters, then use dd to image the whole drive to a file. That should copy block, including the boot block and partition table. Use the reverse process to image the file back to another drive...

Re: NEC NEAX IVS2 PBX with NEAXMAIL AD-8 - hard drive clone issues

2020-11-27 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 at 01:32, keith--- via cctalk wrote: > I have tried to copy it to an industrial CF > card but no luck. I have used Rufus, Active Disk Image, and Macrium > Reflect. First question: how did you try to copy it? You've not given us anywhere near enough info to try to

Re: NEC NEAX IVS2 PBX with NEAXMAIL AD-8 - hard drive clone issues

2020-11-26 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 11/26/2020 05:46 PM, keith--- via cctalk wrote: And yes, I really don't need the voicemail working, nor do I need a PBX in my house but why not? Well, I have set up an Asterisk/FreePBX system with Snom 300 phones at home. Given that phones are fairly essential, I would not want to be

Re: NEC NEAX IVS2 PBX with NEAXMAIL AD-8 - hard drive clone issues

2020-11-26 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 11/26/2020 05:46 PM, keith--- via cctalk wrote: Hi Everyone, Not a classic computer but has a 386 embedded in it for the voice mail. I rescued it from work. We had it rung for 20 years straight. The voice mail (AD-8) is basically a 386 running MS-DOS 6.22. So my concern is the hard

NEC NEAX IVS2 PBX with NEAXMAIL AD-8 - hard drive clone issues

2020-11-26 Thread keith--- via cctalk
Hi Everyone, Not a classic computer but has a 386 embedded in it for the voice mail. I rescued it from work. We had it rung for 20 years straight. The voice mail (AD-8) is basically a 386 running MS-DOS 6.22. So my concern is the hard drive. It is the original 2.5 inch IDE IBM Travelstar 6