ICTUser wrote:
> We are trying to make some emergency disks using a usb floppy drive on sco
> 7.1.4. Unfortunately we have no unix expert here on site and the company we
> use for third party support are having troubles helping. Here is the
> scenario.
>
> In scoadmin the floppy is mounted as the following /dev/dsk/c4b0t0d0p0 on
> /mnt with dosfs filesystem. This mounts ok.
>
> We are able to write to it by changing to the mount point on unix and
> copying a file. This all works ok. But when we try the emergency_disk
> command it doesnt even try to access the drive just comes back that no
> floppy is found or formatted. It is as if the emergency_disk command is
> looking for an internal/ide floppy drive.
>
> Can anyone help please?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> ICTUser
>
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>

IMHO forget using the included tools if you do not have easy access to
support or are an old hand at this.

Instead use a supported commercial backup/recovery product like
BackupEdge or Lone-Tar.

Generate an emergency boot CD using Microlites RecoverEdge product,
included with Backup Edge, and get bit level verified backups that can
be used for "one button" bare metal restores using the RecoverEdge CD.

Download a full function demo at www.microlite.com or, for Lone-Tar, at
www.lone-tar.com.

Disclaimer: We are a Microlite dealer.

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Pat Welch wrote:
> ICTUser wrote:
>
>>We are trying to make some emergency disks using a usb floppy drive on sco
>>7.1.4. Unfortunately we have no unix expert here on site and the company we
>>use for third party support are having troubles helping. Here is the
>>scenario.
>>
>>In scoadmin the floppy is mounted as the following /dev/dsk/c4b0t0d0p0 on
>>/mnt with dosfs filesystem. This mounts ok.
>>
>>We are able to write to it by changing to the mount point on unix and
>>copying a file. This all works ok. But when we try the emergency_disk
>>command it doesnt even try to access the drive just comes back that no
>>floppy is found or formatted. It is as if the emergency_disk command is
>>looking for an internal/ide floppy drive.
>>
>>Can anyone help please?
>>
>>Thanks in advance
>>
>>ICTUser
>
>
> IMHO forget using the included tools if you do not have easy access to
> support or are an old hand at this.
>
> Instead use a supported commercial backup/recovery product like
> BackupEdge or Lone-Tar.
>
> Generate an emergency boot CD using Microlites RecoverEdge product,
> included with Backup Edge, and get bit level verified backups that can
> be used for "one button" bare metal restores using the RecoverEdge CD.
>
> Download a full function demo at www.microlite.com or, for Lone-Tar, at
> www.lone-tar.com.
>
> Disclaimer: We are a Microlite dealer.
>

I agree with the above statement, not to mention that I *think* support
for floppies has been removed from emergency_disk (for sure in SCO OS6 -
not sure for UW7).

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