Major SCO Unix issue, please help.

[slodave]

Thanks Jeremy! I just can't tell if you are being serious... I could have someone pick them up next weekend...

The one drive that'll work is an Ultra Wide SCSI and I don't think I have a controller or cable or the adapter it needs for the cable.

I think it is time to try and get the old server running and use my terminator and see if it is happier.

Dave

[slodave]

Old server is up and the sweet smells of hydraulic fluid a wafting through my living room. The cd-rom drive is SCSI and is no longer needed, so I disconnected it. It did look like the cd-rom drive has built in termination with a jumper setting - looks like it was set to term. I also put the terminator after the removable drive bay.

Now I accidentally logged into X-win without a mouse. How do I kill the session with a keyboard?

Thanks!

EDIT: I was able to get to a command prompt! I am wondering if the drive is actually alright. No weird noises, nothing in the log files.

[slodave]

I think the server is OK. It may be one of the backup drives that is failing, not good, but I can deal with that. It's been upgraded from a 486 to a Celeron 333 MHz and now has 128 megs RAM, up from 64. I will still look for a matching SCSI HDD and image this drive and use the new drive until the system change over.

The HDD that was dropped off this evening to me was not so fortunate. The PCB fried on the drive. This person has two options. I get the same drive, switch boards, dump data, switch boards back and they get lucky and will get another backup solution as well. If that does not work, they get to send it to a recovery service.

We'll see what happens with tomorrow's case. Sounds like data may be recoverable....

Dave

[svandamme]

try Powerquest Drive image
it doesn't do file copies , but does a sector to sector copy

in disk copy mode, it will copy disk 1 to disk 2, even if it doesn't understand the filesystem one bit, at least the older versions did, haven't tried the recent ones, still have the old one laying around here
but i would think they retained this functionality

[slodave]

Originally Posted by svandamme

try Powerquest Drive image
it doesn't do file copies , but does a sector to sector copy

in disk copy mode, it will copy disk 1 to disk 2, even if it doesn't understand the filesystem one bit, at least the older versions did, haven't tried the recent ones, still have the old one laying around here
but i would think they retained this functionality

Yeah, sector by sector copying seems to work well, but one problem I have, is that I cannot copy from SCSI to PATA/SATA and 9 gig SCSI drives are not readily available today.

It'll be sad when we retire this thing. I don't think I'll really get to work on another SCO machine. It would be nice to be able to learn how to install from scratch.

Just have to make it two more months..... It'll actually be kinda of nice. This SCO system really does not have issues. I may get a call once every 6 months. When the migrate to a Windows network.....

Dave

[svandamme]

the old drive image didn't care about what type of drive you had

could copy the scsci data to any other drive, and it would copy anything over as it was
if the disk was bigger, it would still copy over as it was on the original disk and leave the rest blank

so in your case, you snap up any old scsi disk that fit's your adapter be that 9, 18, 36 or whatever in size, boot, then drive image will copy over the stuff

change the scsci id , presto

you'll waste a lot of that disk by not using it, but it should work

you could even copy it to an ata/pata (and probably sata disk)
but that might cause recognition issues in SCO itself, driver not there

drive image works from dos, antihing recognized in the bios, is a valid source/target

[slodave]

Originally Posted by svandamme

the old drive image didn't care about what type of drive you had

could copy the scsci data to any other drive, and it would copy anything over as it was
if the disk was bigger, it would still copy over as it was on the original disk and leave the rest blank

so in your case, you snap up any old scsi disk that fit's your adapter be that 9, 18, 36 or whatever in size, boot, then drive image will copy over the stuff

change the scsci id , presto

you'll waste a lot of that disk by not using it, but it should work

you could even copy it to an ata/pata (and probably sata disk)
but that might cause recognition issues in SCO itself, driver not there

drive image works from dos, antihing recognized in the bios, is a valid source/target

This is the route I will most likely take in about 8 hrs. If one of the backup drives is bad, well, that's OK, but I have no idea how to "introduce" a new drive into the system and give it the same mount point, yet

Dave

[slodave]

Next problem. I am onsite and it now seems that the removable backup drives are no longer recognized. How do I format a hard drive under SCO? I am looking online, but if anyone has the fast answer, let me know.

Thanks!!

Dave

[slodave]

I get the error:

mount: cannot stat '/dev/bkup'

Arg!!!

fdisk -p -f /dev/rbkp gave me some numbers then UNIX Active

It looks like the removable drive is there and has an filesystem, but it won't mount.

Dave

[slodave]

All fixed! I figured out how to add the removable HDD's again and everything is working. Thanks for the help and ideas.

Dave