Adding Another Hard Drive

[trolley]

My OpenServer 5.0.6 server crashed and I had to replace the hardware, the hard drive appeared to be okay. However, I was trying to add it to the new server and having some problems.

I went ahead the followed the instructions on SCO website and did the following:

mkdev hd 'Added a IDE drive
divvy hd10 'The divvy table did not look like the
current drive, it should have???
mkdev fs

I am getting an error saying it cannot determine filesystem type.

I suspect that I have lost everything.....

Any help would be very much appreciated.

 

[edfair]

Possibly needing a reboot after mddev hd?

Can't recall at what stage it sees the table info, except for names which you add.



Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[trolley]

I have reboot many times since trying to add the hard drive.

 

[edfair]

Confirm that you have the entries /dev/hd10 thru /dev/hd14.

Then do a divvy /dev/hd10 and post the results if you get any.

It might help if you would post the results of divvy on drive 0 also.

They might not be the same. The original install could have been set up differently.

If you have entries, then name the divisions and write it out. If the entries show a filesystem type and you have named the division you should be able to mount it. It might require you to run fsck first.

If there is no filesystem type for a particular division you have lost it.





Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[kitaman]

Am I correct in assuming that you had (attempted) to mount the old hard drive as a secondary drive in the new server?
Does the BIOS in the new system see the old drive with the same geometry (cyl,heads,sectors).
If the drive is OK, you should be able to boot from it in the new server as long as the BIOS setting is correct.
If you try to use it as a secondary disk, you will have to rename all the partitions in divvy as they will be the same as the ones on the boot drive. Also do not mark any of the divisions as new, they will be formatted.

Jack