Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:33:26 -0400 From: John Von Essen <john@essenz.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hacking SCO.... Message-ID: <3FB8020D-10D5-11D9-A5BE-0003933DDCFA@essenz.com> In-Reply-To: <20040927141316.L49857-100000@mxb.saturn-tech.com> References: <20040927141316.L49857-100000@mxb.saturn-tech.com>
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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> > >
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