From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 27 22:42:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9981616A4CE for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:42:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from beck.quonix.net (beck.quonix.net [146.145.66.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D76943D3F for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:42:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john@essenz.com) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (pool-141-158-247-68.phil.east.verizon.net [141.158.247.68]) by beck.quonix.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i8RMgERD096639 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:42:14 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: <20040927141316.L49857-100000@mxb.saturn-tech.com> References: <20040927141316.L49857-100000@mxb.saturn-tech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <3FB8020D-10D5-11D9-A5BE-0003933DDCFA@essenz.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Von Essen Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:33:26 -0400 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-SpamAssassin-2.64-Score: 0.5/6 RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL,RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL X-MimeDefang-2.44: beck.quonix.net X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.44 Subject: Re: hacking SCO.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:42:19 -0000 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...... > >