SCO 505 partition on 2nd SCSI drive, 1st running suse9.3
 

I'm running SuSE 9.3 on a primary drive, via Adaptec 29160 SCSI adapter. To this I've added a second drive, w/several partitions. I want to access the contents of a GNU HURD partition containing SCO 5.0.5; mostly character files. I cannot get Yast to recognize this partition. Please advise.

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Suse linux w/2nd scsi drive; want to read SCO partition
 

1/24/08
Thanks for info from Emerson.
I'm slow at this; really want to try to mount the HTFS filesystem w/sco
from the command line in linux. I'm an old-fashioned purist I guess,
but it seems to me that I should be able to work it out w the mount command. In Yast, the second drive /dev/sdb is recognized, as is the primary drive. Both are on the Adaptec ad. I'm heading toward
mount -t ??? /dev/sdb4 /sco
/sco is an empty file in the root dir. of drive 0
Any thoughts? Thanks
Jim

Try with sysv.

scsi sco on linux
 

1/26/08
Thanks E.
So here's the interesting part.
my 0 drive is all suse9.3 linux, one partition.
the 1 drive is a tri-partitioned scsi drive, containing a fat32, linux and sco unix partitions, sdb 1,2 and 4. It boots as drive 0 just fine into sco unix, I have that partition active, and hadn't been using the win or linux sections on it. Now I want to get to the unix partition.
In suse Yast, it id's all 3 partitions, as sdb 1,2,4.

At the prompt, I used:
> mount -r -t sysv /dev/sdb4 /sco
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb4
or too many mounted file systems.

So how to get to that partition without resorting to dd or something.
Jim

sco partition
 

1/28
Given the above problem accessing second drive; I resort to the primary drive; reformat it, load sco 505 onto first 2g, and then suse9.3 onto the remaining 16.2g. Both work independently; Now I tried to access the sco partition on the same drive via yast and the command line; neither worked giving same message as previous post. /sco is 777 root and i was root. Confounding that root privileges would lead to such dead end.
Any thoughts are appreciated.
Jim

You said it boots fine into SCO, I'd say upload those files to some FTP or NFS server. SuSE probably has no HTFS support, searching for an add-on-driver and installing it is too much trouble compared to a simple upload.

sco partition
 

1/28/08
Thanks for suggestions.
My problem is this: SCO partition is not set up to network; it sits there alone, w/about 500 MB of char-data files I want to access from Linux.

Even though I can zip-transfer from the SCO htfs on drive 1 to the SCO partition on drive 0, I still can't access or use that data w/o shutting down and rebooting. So w/my migration to Linux as the main OS, I still want to access the old files in the SCO partition. I would guess that if Linux won't recognize the filesystem on the harddrive, it won't on the Zip either. I checked the filesystems in divvy, and the root fs is htfs, not eafs.
Thanks very much.

I hear HTFS support for Linux is discontinued due to patent problems. At this point I'd say you have two options:
1. Search net and get that free read-only driver;
2. Copy your files over to some other partition readable by both SCO and Linux.

sco on linux
 

1/28/08

Thank you for your suggestions; this is entirely new territory for me!
And pretty exciting - I checked google/linux and see this avenue unfolding. I am starting to get a feel for the filesystems issue and picked up the book Linux Filesystems. So I will be checking into this over the next few days and get back to you. Adding a driver is an unknown for me so this should be pretty interesting.
Jim