hacking SCO....

[John Von Essen]

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>
>
>