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Old 09-16-2008
sco server recovery

Hi everyone, I am having a problem using SCO

I have used linux for years and actually learned linux command line from a unix book, but this is my first experience with sco.

I have a server that was running sco 3.04 and thoroughbred basic software. It crashed, and the only backup is on some tape drives, I dont know how it was setup or anything I am just supposed to fix it.

I got a legal copy of openserver 5.07 and installed it on a machine with an adaptec scsi card for the tape drive, and regular ide. running the mkdev tape didnt pickup the tape device even after entering the lun and stuff, plus the driver wasnt listed. I also have a copy of version 6, should I use that instead?

I didnt really want to skip too many versions because the Thoroughbred basic compiler that the system uses was compiled for 3.04 so I dont know if it will work on newer machines.

my question is how can I recover from tape? and is there anyway to get USB support?

I would also like to try recover the data from the old hard drive which picks up in bios, but cant boot, because of damaged sectors. any tools can be used to repair? mac, windows or linux?


thanks alot for all and any help
Dmitri
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BRANDELF(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					       BRANDELF(1)

NAME
brandelf -- mark an ELF binary for a specific ABI SYNOPSIS
brandelf [-lv] [-f ELF_ABI_number] [-t string] file ... DESCRIPTION
The brandelf utility marks an ELF binary to be run under a certain ABI for FreeBSD. The options are as follows: -f ELF_ABI_number Forces branding with the supplied ELF ABI number. Incompatible with the -t option. These values are assigned by SCO/USL. -l Writes the list of all known ELF types to the standard error. -v Turns on verbose output. -t string Brands the given ELF binaries to be of the string ABI type. Currently supported ABIs are ``FreeBSD'', ``Linux'', and ``SVR4''. file If -t string is given it will brand file to be of type string, otherwise it will simply display the branding of file. EXIT STATUS
Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command fails if a file does not exist, is too short, fails to brand properly, or the brand requested is not one of the known types and the -f option is not set. EXAMPLES
The following is an example of a typical usage of the brandelf command: brandelf file brandelf -t Linux file SEE ALSO
The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc., System V Application Binary Interface, http://www.sco.com/developer/devspecs/, April 29, 1998 (DRAFT). HISTORY
The brandelf manual page first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2. AUTHORS
This manual page was written by John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>. BSD
February 6, 1997 BSD