Recover error- Fatal Error: A critical disk initialization

[mammut3d]

Hi,
I'm a new user of unix sco open server.
In my work place i had to recover a sco openserver backup into another PC but when i'm trying to do that i got this error message :
dparm: write ioctl failed: No such device or address
Invalid entry
mit_hdpart0 failed
Fatal Error: A critical disk initialization
utility has failed on the primary disk.
Error: /mitram/lib/mit_hd has failed, exiting with state FAIL

** Safe to Power Off **
-or-
** Press Any Key to Reboot **

----------- aditional information
using IDE HARD
recovery DVD is bootable

Thank you and in advance please

 

[patw]

More info: How did you generate the recovery media - the SCO utility, Edge or Lone-tar (way better) or ??

And what version SCO? (uname -X).

Note that if you used the SCO utility the new machine MUST be essentially the same as the old one as far as hardware goes.

Pat Welch, UBB Computer Services
SCO Authorized Partner
Microlite BackupEdge Certified Reseller
Unix/Linux/Windows/Hardware Sales/Support