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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!EU.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!psinntp!psinntp!pubxfer.news.psi.net!dan.emsphone.com!not-for-mail From: Dan Nelson <dan@dan.emsphone.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: how to mount SCO hard drives? Date: 10 Jan 1997 00:17:05 GMT Organization: Executive Marketing Services, Inc. Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5b41q1$eid@client3.news.psi.net> References: <5b0mvs$ng2$1@Jupiter.Mcs.Net> <01bbfe0a$17e91560$f4306dc2@beheerder> <5b33fu$aft$1@Jupiter.Mcs.Net> Reply-To: dnelson@emsphone.com (Dan Nelson) NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.67.51.101 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 970104] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33912 Bill <bill@MCS.COM> wrote: > "Robert Soen" <rsoen@xs4all.nl> writes: > >Bill <bill@MCS.COM> wrote in article <5b0mvs$ng2$1@Jupiter.Mcs.Net>... > >> Recently someone asked me to get some data of some old SCO > >> harddrives. I tried to see if freebsd could mount them but it > >> couldn't. I had every filesystem compiled into the kernel so I > >> guess they use one that isn't supported directly by freebsd. I > >> know the drives work. Is there any way to read them? > >> > >Using NFS works fine, or do you only have the drives and not a SCO > >machine? > > I only have the drives. It will boot up SCO but it goes directly > into a menu that we can't break out of to get to a shell and noone > can remember the root password. It's a really old machine. Just saying "SCO disk" doesn't mean much, as there are at least 4 incompatible filesystems that SCO unixes have used (XENIX, EAFS, DTFS, HTFS). I had to do the same thing as you (client's computer died; they brought us the disk and said "we need the files off this"). We happen to run SCO on a few machines and the disk mounted as a XENIX fs; extremely old fs, but it did mount. I suggest you order the FreeSCO CD for $30 (or whatever) and use that. That way, you'll also have the SCO shlibs for binary emulation on FreeBSD... -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com