Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 17:49:45 -0400 From: John Von Essen <john@essenz.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hacking SCO.... Message-ID: <CD81012B-18AA-11D9-B05A-0003933DDCFA@essenz.com> In-Reply-To: <200409272324.i8RNOfds008071@laps.jhs.private> References: <200409272324.i8RNOfds008071@laps.jhs.private>
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Well, I eventually got this SCO system working. But today, some errors=20= appeared: 505k:unrecover error reading SCSI disk on 0 Dev =96 1/42 cha =3D 0 id =3D 0 1 on =3D 0 Block 6578 medium error unrecovered read error HTFS i/o failure occurred while trying to upgrade 1 node 26302 on=20 HTFS.=A0 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=20= itself? The drive is brand new (well, its actually a replacement from=20 acer with a date code on it from 1998 so it has been sitting in a box=20 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=20 > ASAP ! > > ........ >> SCO is of no help, they cant provide replacement boot floppy, only=20 >> 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=20 >> 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. > > - > Julian Stacey. Unix,C,Net & Sys. Eng. Consultant, Munich. =20 > http://berklix.com > Mail in Ascii, Html dumped as Spam. Ihr Rauch =3D mein allergischer=20= > Kopfschmerz. > >
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