Re: ESDI to spanned floppies using ghost

From: Scott McMillan (smcm_at_usa.net)
Date: 01/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:37:59 -0500

(Follow-up posted to comp.unix.sco.misc as well)

On 28 Jan 2004 12:47:40 -0800, Jabriol@excite.com (JaBrIoL) wrote:

>All,
>
>Here is another question for the acclaimed wizard of computer PC
>hardware.
>After the first nuclear blast hits, you are the wizard to make things
>work with only the material you posses. Here is what you have:
>
>-486dx
>-1 ESDI micropolis 1355 hard drive loaded with SCO UNIX.

Which version of SCO? 'uname -X' should divulge that.

>-1 WD1007A-WA2 controller
>-1 ESDI controller cable and data cable
>-1 dos bootable floppy disk with Norton Ghost 2003
>
>
>Your mission if you decide to accept. ;-)
>
>Create a spanned disk of floppies from your UNIX drive using ghost.
>However you notice that with every attempt, you get : "application
>error 29089"
>When you go the Symantec site you read: " non compatibility with ghost
>2002 and USB"
>You then say "Huh" I got 2003!!!..
>
>
>What would you do????

Translation: How do I get the data off of my old failing ESDI drive.
I would try one of the following (in order of preference):

Grab a free trial copy of one of the 'Supertars' (see
http://aplawrence.com/Reviews/supertars.html) to create a backup of
the existing drive and transfer said backup to a new IDE or SCSI
drive.

-OR-

Throw an IDE or SCSI drive into the system, run 'mkdev hd' to
configure the new drive into the kernel, then copy the data from the
ESDI to the new drive with cpio or dd. See
http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/newdisk.html for help on adding the new
drive to the kernel.

Scott McMillan