From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 27 23:22:14 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 4EF8816A4CE for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:22:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from skippyii.compar.com (old.compar.com [216.208.38.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B50343D1D for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:22:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from hermes (CPE00062566c7bb-CM000039c69a66.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.193.82.185])i8RNRngw000150; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:27:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <002901c4a4e8$65503620$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matt Emmerton" To: "John Von Essen" , References: <20040927141316.L49857-100000@mxb.saturn-tech.com> <3FB8020D-10D5-11D9-A5BE-0003933DDCFA@essenz.com> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:19:01 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 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 23:22:14 -0000 I believe DAT is what you want to tell SCO. -- Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Von Essen" To: Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 6:33 PM Subject: Re: hacking SCO.... > 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...... > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >