Disk copy dsk0c to dsk1ci to replace bad disk

From: Sherman Owens (owens_at_pet.wustl.edu)
Date: 06/18/04

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    Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 14:27:22 -0500
    To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov
    
    

    Dear managers:

    I have an old Alphastation 900 running Tru 64 5.0. When the power
    failed it caused the disk heads not to spin up unless you tapped on it
    with a screw driver.

    Anyways, I "got" an identical interal disk from HP (it had faster RPM cycles)
    and plugged in as dsk1c.

    I then followed the advice of Dr. Blinn on copying disks using the
    following commands after shutdown down to single user mode.

    disklabel -z rz1c
    dd if=/dev/rdisk/dsk0c of=/dev/rdisk/dsk1c conv=noerror,sync (notice
    that I took the default block size because it wouldn't work with bs=somevalue)
    It finished 25 hours later with no errors. I'm using the advfs for
    3 partitions including root and usr.

    Ok: The HP field engineer removed the old drive and we removed the
    jumper on drive 1.

    When I boot up I get a bunch of /sbin/it getconf: not found
                                     /sbin/it message: not found, etc.

    INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly check for errors.

    Now I have the system backed up via vdump on a remote system and can
    disconnect a tape drive from another Alpha and plug it in here. I have
    boot CD rom and I know I can go the the SHELL to try to do some Sys
    administration.

    The system still thinks the drive is dsk 1 and not dsk 0 when I do some
    tests so I think that is one problem.

    Any suggestions before I use my CDs and tapes?

    Thanks!!

    Sherman Owens


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