Here is the scenario. We have an billing system that ran on SCO 5.0.6. The HP Netserver went dwon, along with SCSI disks. They are unretrievable. I installed an IDE HDD, and reinstalled SCO. I am not too familiar w/ SCO or UNIX, and need to know how to install Tape drive, and how to restore from tape drive. I have tried mkdev tape to install, but I am having some difficulties. I am assuming, once drive is installed and working, I will then run tar tvf /dev/rct0 | page to view contents of tape, then tar xvf /dev/rct0 to restore all data and overwrite current SCO installation. Please advise. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. - Jon

I used SCO about 20 years ago, so can't remember diddleysquat.
Is the admin tool sysadmsh, or something like that?

I believe so - I think that takes you to the admin shell. Here is my main problem. I am logged in as root, and when I try to run
# tar tvf /dev/rct0
system then replies with
tar: cannot find /dev/rct0 or something along those lines.
I am also not sure what to do when installing this SCSI tape drive, or if it is already installed and needs linked to rct0????

when I try
# mkdev tape

I choose 1.) SCSI Tape Drive
then from there I do not really know what to do. The SCSI tape drive is an HP SureTape DAT 40. I have been fooling around for a while and I am getting very frustrated.

But I know the great people in this forum can help me out.

So......... IF YOU UNIX GODS CAN HEAR ME>>>HEEEEEEELP!!!!!!!!!

If my memory serves my well,
type scoadmin, then i believe there is an option Hardware manager or something, and then scroll until SCSI tape/drive. Im' not sure what comes then, but you can try

I have already basically done that. When you execute
# mkdev tape
it takes you to the same menu.

Thanks for the response though!




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