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Operating Systems SCO Restore from HP Tape Drive Post 302148985 by jgt on Tuesday 4th of December 2007 01:21:04 PM
Old 12-04-2007
You cannot restore the entire root file system. The disk controller driver is different, (scsi vs ide), you will end up with a system that will not boot.
When you find out the format of the tape, you will have to selectively restore any files that are in the root file system.
You may be better off to acquire another HP system with the same or similar (at least with the same RAID controller, the disk sizes don't matter so much) hardware configuration.
 

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

icp

ICP(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    ICP(4)

NAME

     icp -- ICP-Vortex and Intel Storage RAID driver

SYNOPSIS

     icp* at pci? dev ? function ?
     ld* at icp? unit ?
     icpsp* at icp? unit ?
     scsibus* at icpsp?

DESCRIPTION

     The icp driver provides support for the newer (post 1997) ICP-Vortex GDT and Intel Storage RAID controllers.

     The ld driver provides access to logical devices (disk arrays) presented by the controller.  The icpsp driver provides direct access to other
     SCSI devices attached to the controller, such as tape or CD-ROM drives.

DIAGNOSTICS

     pci_mem_find: expected mem type 00000000, found 00000002
		   This message may be displayed during autoconfiguration if the controller's memory is mapped below 1MB in physical address
		   space.  This can be disabled either through changing a setting in the controller's BIOS utility, or changing the position of a
		   jumper on the board.  See your controller's documentation for more information.

SEE ALSO

     intro(4), ld(4), scsi(4)

HISTORY

     The icp driver first appeared in NetBSD 1.6, and was based on the FreeBSD and OpenBSD drivers of the same name.

BUGS

     ISA & EISA front-ends and a management interface are needed.

     Older PCI boards are not yet supported.

BSD
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