So I have been trying everything I can think of and still not having any success. To recap - something went wrong with my original OpenServer 5.0.6 hardware and the system would not boot, I suspect the mb but have not confirmed. Instead I have moved the hard drive to newer server hardware and the O/S will consistently boot up, however per advice from this forum I need to install newer NIC drivers in order to reconnect to my LAN. In order to do that I have to install via CD and I cannot get the CD drive(s) that I have to be recognized by the O/S. In the BIOS of the new hardware, the CD drive is recognized as the Slave device on the Primary IDE. No matter what I've tried within SCO using mkdev I cannot get the drive to be recognized. My next thought was to try switching out the physical drive, using the CD drive from the original SCO hardware, which was working fine in the O/S as far as I remember. With this drive connected to the new server, nothing is recognized in the BIOS. I tried to force the setting in BIOS to say "CD-ROM" but still won't get recognized by SCO.
The steps to add the device that I've used in SCO go like this: I remove all previously configured devices, so that nothing is shown in the /etc/conf/cf.d/mscsi file. Then I run "mkdev cdrom" and select "Install an EIDE CD-Rom drive. The next comment from SCO says I have to configure the driver, and that is when it asks which IDE device it is - to which I reply Primary, Slave. After it says the device has been added it asks if I want to install the high-sierra file system, and I say yes to that also. I save the new kernel, choose to boot new kernel by default, and rebuild the environment, etc. When I reboot I can tell that the cd-rom device does not show up at the hardware initialization stage, and when I try to "mount /dev/cd0 /mnt" I always get the same errors (I am going to attache a photo of the screen showing the errors) Today I looked closely at what the messages say, and they refer only to a "SCSI IDE" drive! I'm not dealing with a SCSI drive, so maybe this error is trying to tell me what the real problem is?
As you can see in the photo, here are the errors that come up: "CONFIG: No Srom SCSI devices configured (unit 0 missing)" and then: "WARNING: Attempt to close unopened device", then a repeat of the CONFIG error, then this: "mount: /dev/cd0: No such device or address (error 6). I am starting to lose hope of ever getting past this situation so that I can reconnect this server to my network. I would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks.
I've just installed Unix SCO OpenServer System v in an Intel PC and Everithing ok, except just one thing, in the begining of the installation the wizard asked me about the mouse , i have a generic 3 buttons mouse and i took a logitech and did not work
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hello!
when i try to make my system dual boot with both win98 & sco open server 5.5 it doesn't work at all.neither win98 take start nor sco open server boots.what should i do ?
kindly help me
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I am doing some work for a customer that is running SCO 5.0.2 openserver and they have lost their cd. Is there anyplace I can download it? I have a replacement being shipped but it will not be here for two days and they are down. Any ideals? (3 Replies)
hello guys.
I just installed SCO 5.0.6 OpenServer it went all the way to the end of the installation and the first boot try it gave me this message.
not a directory
boot not found
cannot open
stage 1 boot failure: error loading hd (40)/boot (2 Replies)
Hi there guys.
I just got this new SCO version and i'm having some problem printing from shell,
This is what i'm typing at the # sign : lp -dHP /etc/hosts and it prints no problem but when i use any other user at the $ sign it gives me this error.
/dev/fd/7: /usr/lib/lp/sysv/7: not found.
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Hi guys,
I just got this new 6.0 version and i'm trying to setup a remote office to telnet to this server running sco 6.0, in previous version all i have to do is add this file under /etc/rc2.d call S99route and put the gate in that file and that was it, for some reason in 6.0 it does not... (1 Reply)
Dear members
when i installed dual processor patch in openserver 5.0.7 in hp ML370 G4 server it hangs in sco at G_hd_config.
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Hi,
I have an openserver 5.0.0 machine in the office. The sysad of that machine left years ago without leaving the password to anyone.
I was wondering if someone has a copy of the boot / root diskettes (rescue) for this version? Or perhaps if anyone knows a download link / location in the... (0 Replies)
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atapi_ide
atapi_ide(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual atapi_ide(7)NAME
atapi_ide - Interface for ATAPI or IDE (PC) devices
SYNOPSIS
PCI bus CMD/Acer ATAPI/IDE adapter:
bus pci0 at *
bus ata0 at *
controller scsi0 at ata0 slot 0
controller scsi1 at ata0 slot 1
PCI bus Cypress ATAPI/IDE adapter:
bus pci0 at *
bus ata0 at *
bus ata1 at *
controller scsi0 at ata0 slot 0
controller scsi1 at ata1 slot 0
PCMCIA bus ATA/IDE disk card:
bus pcmcia0 at *
bus ata0 at pcmcia?
controller scsi0 at ata0
DESCRIPTION
Devices commonly known for their use on PC devices as ATA or IDE devices are supported using the SCSI CAM device driver. The ATA standard
has also been expanded to include what are known as ATAPI devices. The SCSI CAM device driver is also used for those disks and CD-ROM
devices. These devices may also be known under the names EIDE, ATA-2, Fast-ATA, or Ultra-ATA.
Beacuse the ATA/IDE standard was not developed until after many of the devices that used this standard were produced, there are many
devices which do not strictly comply with the standard. While it is possible some industry standard devices may appear to work, it is also
possible they will cause hang or data corruption cases when used under more stressful situations. For this reason, it is recommended that
only the supported devices be used. These devices have been tested and are certified for correct operation.
ATAPI/IDE controllers allow the connection of two devices. These two devices are known as the master device and the slave device. If only
one device is connected, that device must be the master (slave-only configurations are not supported). When used by the SCSI CAM device
driver, the IDE master device is assigned SCSI id 0 for that controller. The slave device is assigned SCSI id 1 for that controller. No
other SCSI ids are assigned on that controller. Most ATAPI/IDE adapters contain two channels (known as the primary and secondary). Each
of these channels may contain their own master and slave devices. Therefore, a dual channel ATAPI/IDE controller may contain up to 4
devices (a master and slave pair on each channel). These 4 devices are then accessed as SCSI id 0 and 1 on each channel.
Many SCSI operations translate perfectly for use on IDE. For example, read and write operations are the same. However, many SCSI disk
mode pages are emulated by the IDE device driver. For example, you can display the SCSI inquiry mode pages using the following command: %
scu show inq pages pages are created by the device driver to contain the long (full IDE) form of the device name, serial number, revision,
and the operational modes of the device. Only a shortened version of this information is available with the standard SCSI inquiry command.
Note also that the following command: % scu show pages Shows that the SCSI mode pages contain only partial information. Only that informa-
tion (such as geometry) that the drive reports to the system is able to be reformatted into these emulated SCSI mode pages. Much of the
information (such as RPM) is simply not available from the drive, and therefore not accurately reported.
ATAPI devices are much more closely related to SCSI devices, and as such contain their own mode pages. Therefore, for these devices, the
mode page values reported are those from the device, and no emulation is involved.
ATAPI tape devices are not supported at this time.
FILES
/dev/disk/dsk??? /dev/disk/dsk???
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atapi_ide(7)