Re: Transferring SCO Drive to Another Server

From: Jeremy Eder (jeder_at_hitekdata.com)
Date: 04/13/05 

Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:56:16 -0400

J P wrote:
> "Jeremy Eder" <jeder@hitekdata.com> wrote in message
> news:%ka7e.1730$oL1.434@fe10.lga...
>
>>Hello SCO Friends;
>>
>>I've got what has turned out to be a serious situation.
>>
>>On a programmers workstation, he was backing up /u every night.
>>/u2 was a different physical disk and was not being backed up.
>>The drive and data is in perfect condition.
>>
>>I need to mount it in another server. I have SCO, Redhat EL, Windows,
>>servers as options. I'll install any OS you can suggest in order to get
>>at this data. The problem is that the OS on his workstation is
>>toast...TCP/IP as well as access to the tape drive is not functional,
>>removing my usual options of recovery/data transfer.
>>
>>My idea is to mount this drive in another SCO box, as that seems as the
>>easiest option. I'm very reluctant to continue without experienced
>>advice, due to the sensitivity of the information on the drive: 4gb of
>>source code.
>>
>>The drive is U160 SCSI on a dptr-based scsi controller. The target
>>servers have no SCSI cards yet, so I would have to install that
>>controller first. Please, if you can, detail the installation of that
>>as well, as I've done it before but as you can tell I want to be
>>extremely careful with my operations, as if this is lost, I believe so
>>might be my job. :)
>>
>>Please advise the proper sequence of mkdev's/mounts - or whatever might
>>be necessary to get this controller and drive mounted in another server
>>so that i can get at this data.
>>
>>I've researched on google and found applicable articles on aplawrence,
>>but they havent been updated in 2-3 years. They may still work, however
>>I wanted to consult with this newsgroup before continuing.
>>
>>Thank you so much for taking the time to read this post, and for any
>>help you may be able to offer.
>>
>>Sincerely,
>>
>>Jeremy Eder.
>
>
> I can't figure out if the machine is dead (OS is toast) or if it's still
> alive, but not all the parts are working (TCP/IP as well as access to the
> tape drive is not functional). A little clarification would be the first
> order of precedence. Does the machine boot? Can you login, see files, and
> do normal things from the console? Or does it absolutely refuse to boot, or
> maybe give some error messages when you try to boot?
>
> Address the failed OS first, then jump into the hardcore re-configuration
> topics.
>
> JP
>
>
OS if "functioning" to the point where it will boot with unix.install
kernel. However any relink's cause a lot of errors. I can read all the
data perfectly, which is the only good news of the day. The goal is to
somehow get this data off the drive (as i stated, since the kernel is
not relinkable i cannot configure tape/tcpip).

I just did a fresh install of SCO on a spare box to continue. That box
has working tcpip and tape (i just tested both, in anticipation of any
guidance).

JP, thank you so much for your help so far.

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