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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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mknod

MKNOD(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						  MKNOD(8)

NAME

     mknod -- make device special file

SYNOPSIS

     mknod [-F format] name [c | b] major minor
     mknod [-F format] name [c | b] major unit subunit
     mknod name [c | b] number
     mknod name w

DESCRIPTION

     The mknod command creates device special files.

     To make nodes manually, the required arguments are:

     name    Device name, for example ``sd'' for a SCSI disk on an HP300 or a ``pty'' for pseudo-devices.

     b | c | w
	     Type of device. If the device is a block type device such as a tape or disk drive which needs both cooked and raw special files, the
	     type is b.  Whiteout nodes are type w.  All other devices are character type devices, such as terminal and pseudo devices, and are
	     type c.

     major   The major device number is an integer number which tells the kernel which device driver entry point to use.

     minor   The minor device number tells the kernel which one of several similar devices the node corresponds to; for example, it may be a spe-
	     cific serial port or pty.

     unit and subunit
	     The unit and subunit numbers select a subset of a device; for example, the unit may specify a particular SCSI disk, and the subunit a
	     partition on that disk.  (Currently this form of specification is only supported by the bsdos format, for compatibility with the
	     BSD/OS mknod(8).)

     Device numbers for different operating systems may be packed in a different format.  To create device nodes that may be used by such an oper-
     ating system (e.g. in an exported file system used for netbooting), the -F option is used.  The following formats are recognized: native,
     386bsd, 4bsd, bsdos, freebsd, hpux, isc, linux, netbsd, osf1, sco, solaris, sunos, svr3, svr4 and ultrix.

     Alternatively, a single opaque device number may be specified.

SEE ALSO

     mkfifo(1), mkfifo(2), mknod(2)

HISTORY

     A mknod command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.  The -F option appeared in NetBSD 1.4.

NetBSD 1.4							September 11, 1998							NetBSD 1.4