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Also, if there is a High Sierra script take look at it and what it does. There may be comments in there that will help.

Just found this:

http://osr507doc.sco.com/man/html.ADM/mkdev.ADM.html

which says mkdev scripts are located at /etc/mkdev

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.

Trying attachment again.


When I preview my post, it shows the image attachment. When I submit the post the image attachment does not appear - what am I doing wrong?

Without re-reading all the posts, i believe that the disk is sata, and the cdrom is ide.

If you are trying to install the cdrom as primary slave, then the disk cannot be on the primary controller. If the disk came from another system where it was the primary master, then it might boot from a secondary port, but re-linking the kernel may be problematic.
Therefore for the third time please post the last page of /usr/adm/messages and /etc/conf/cf.d/mscsi

I went through the /usr/adm/messages file and I am posting a pic of the configuration before this incident, which shows the cd-rom as the secondary master device, which is what I remember. (12-10-1.jpg) Next I am posting a pic of the current configuration output which shows no cd-rom is recognized. (12-10-2). Also I am posting a pic of the /etc/conf/cf.d/mscsi file (12-10-3.jpg) which shows a cd-rom installed as primary slave but is not working, which makes sense after jdt explanation. The mb in my new hardware only has 1 IDE port, so I'm assuming it's always going to be "primary" - which will be in conflict with my hd. Can I connect a SATA cd-rom and configure in BIOS as IDE emulating, like I have the hd, and would it show up as secondary master? I can't think of anything else that would work.




My pics are not appearing in the post. When I "Preview Changes" they show up, but when I "Save Changes" or "Submit Reply" they don't appear in the post. Can someone tell me how to get my pics to show in the post?

Trying to post pics again in different browser.