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Operating Systems SCO Make a Copy Entire Hard Disk Post 302353036 by jgt on Monday 14th of September 2009 10:14:46 AM
Old 09-14-2009
Assuming for the moment that the system has an IDE hard drive, the simplest way is to add a second IDE drive, and use Norton Ghost to duplicate the drive, by booting from a DOS/Win95/Win98 diskette. Do not attempt to change the partition size, as this function of Ghost is not supported.
If you have a SCSI system, then you can use the same process if:
1 you have a DOS driver for the SCSI host adapter,
2 you have a disk with the same number of heads and sectors per track.
3 you know how to install a scsi disk

There are ways to do this using SCO unix, read the installation manual about adding a second hard drive, run mkdev hd, but skip the divvy section, and use "dd" to copy /dev/hd0a to /dev/hd1a
You could also purchase Microlite Edge from Home of Microlite BackupEDGE / RecoverEDGE, and then use its backup and recovery features.
 

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

mca

MCA(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    MCA(4)

NAME

     mca -- introduction to machine-independent MCA bus support and drivers

SYNOPSIS

     mca0 at mainbus?

     options MCAVERBOSE

     Machine-dependent; depends on the bus topology and MCA bus interface of your system. Typical MCA buses are connected directly to the main
     system bus.

DESCRIPTION

     NetBSD includes a machine-independent MCA bus subsystem and several machine-independent MCA device drivers.

HARDWARE

     NetBSD includes machine-independent MCA drivers, sorted by device type and driver name:

   SCSI controllers
	   aha	    Adaptec AHA-1640 SCSI interface

	   esp	    NCR 53C90 SCSI Adapter

   Disk and tape controllers
	   edc	    IBM ESDI Fixed Disk Controller

   Serial interfaces
	   com	    NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based serial cards.

   Network interfaces
	   tr	    TROPIC based token ring interfaces

	   ate	    Allied-Telesis 1720 Ethernet interface cards

	   we	    WD/SMC WD80x3x Ethernet interface cards and clones

	   le	    SKNET Personal and MC+ Ethernet interface cards

	   elmc     3Com EtherLink/MC (3c523) Ethernet interface

	   ep	    3Com EtherLink III 3c529 Ethernet interface

	   tra	    Tiara LANCard/E and Standard MicroSystems 3016/MC Ethernet interface

SEE ALSO

     aha(4), ate(4), com(4), edc(4), elmc(4), ep(4), esp(4), le(4), ne(4), tr(4), tra(4), we(4)

HISTORY

     The machine-independent MCA subsystem appeared in NetBSD 1.5.

BSD
								   March 3, 2005							       BSD
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