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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