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Originally Posted by panos83
Hello there Sir,

according to this old post,
warning:hd:no root disk controler was found

i try to restore an old image to a new hard disk drive.
The problem is that i don't have basic information such as:
1) Which btld driver do i need for my new hard drive?
2) Where to tell sco where the new drive actually is, according to the post
above (ex. "root=ad320(0,0,0,0)" tell sco what the hard drive address is.
controller #,bus #, disk id#, lun always 0)


My hardware does not support floppy device due its nature plus the only
available bootable media is my sco boot CD

What should i do in order to correct the controller issue? Which commands and with what order to
type them?

Any help would be grateful

Thanks
Would you please create a new thread with your question in it, and also include the version of the OS and a brief description of the new hardware (cpu type, disk controller type, etc)

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The new drive uses the same disk controller driver as the old one, however...
There are two issues that you will have to deal with. The first is the CMOS settings for how SATA drives are to be treated. You must use legacy mode, so that the disk appears to be the primary master.
Secondly, the disk geometry is different for the new drive. Use the biosgeom(cyl,heads,sectors) boot string to tell the kernel that the drive has a different number of cylinders heads and sectors. Use the native mode numbers, not LBA or LARGE.
After you have booted, use the "dparam" command to permanently change these values.
You said that the cpu is a P3. Are you using a non standard SATA controller?

I got the information you asked:

Now, the OS is SCO OpenServer 5.0.7
About the hardware, i still don't have the information about the controller, all i know is that the broken HD is a Toshiba MK2018GAS and the new HD is a WD1200B EVE

I have an old image from the Toshiba. Now that Toshiba HD is broken, i restored the
image file to the new HD (Western Digital) and i get the errors bellow:

warning:hd:noroot disk controler was found
hd:a boot-time loadable driver may be required
h i init
panic:srmount fan-error19 mounting rootdev(1/42)
error 19 opening dumpdev(1/41)
dump not completed
safe to power off

The cpu is a PIII and i did't find any problems related to that.

As a newbie to SCO i can't bypass this problem and map the OS to new disc
Forgive me for my bad English.

Any help would be really grateful.

Panos

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The new drive uses the same disk controller driver as the old one, however...
There are two issues that you will have to deal with. The first is the CMOS settings for how SATA drives are to be treated. You must use legacy mode, so that the disk appears to be the primary master.
Secondly, the disk geometry is different for the new drive. Use the biosgeom(cyl,heads,sectors) boot string to tell the kernel that the drive has a different number of cylinders heads and sectors. Use the native mode numbers, not LBA or LARGE.
After you have booted, use the "dparam" command to permanently change these values.
You said that the cpu is a P3. Are you using a non standard SATA controller?


As i understand and correct me if i a wrong, when you say CMOS settings do you
refer through BIOS settings? Legacy mode has to be configured through the BIOS?

Yes that is the correct assumption. However, I am surprised that you have a P3 with this capability. 5.07 Will run on socket 478 and 775 P4 motherboards.

I will try to unlock the bios at the moment and then i will post again how is it going
Thank you very much jgt

Panos