I have NEVER seen a 486 with USB ports. I imagine if you had one with a PCI port, you could add a USB PCI Card. That adapter you sent a link to is for what looks like 68-pin SCSI, and his drive is probably DB25 or 50-pin or lord knows what else at that age. It's a 328MB SCSI drive. I don't know if I've even seen a SCSI drive at less than 1 or 2 GB and still knew what it was. We're talking ancient freakin history here. A&E dug up a mate to this baby next to the Sphinx.
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From: Oren Beck Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 1:44 PM To: Monty J. Harder Cc: Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO; Subject: Re: Linux / SCO Stuff.
On 12/8/06, Monty J. Harder <> wrote:
"no network option" in SCO doesn't mean "no NIC", it means that it's the Host version of SCO, rather than Enterprise. It has no TCP/IP stack. No ifconfig. <NetNazi>NO NETWORK FOR YOU!</NetNazi> On 12/8/06, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO < mailto:brian.kelsay@kcc.usda.gov > wrote:
I may have an old ISA network card in my basement, or Oren has it from when he took all my extra old cards. You'd have to get drivers and put on floppy, but that would be another answer. I think I probably have a few 3Com ISA cards come to think of it. 3C509-TPO Great cards.
>>have an IDE bus, main system HDD is SCSI (328MB). No network option,
A possible "Last resort first" fix seems possible with this. http://www.usbgear.com/USB-TO-SCSI.html Under $75 delivered or better prices from Ebay or local shops- but it SHOULD work. And after the "project " is do n e, either keep it in your toolset or use it to wipe and format ALL the stack of SCSI drives in your collection- possibly even using them for "Offsite Data Buckets" of data to be safe deposit boxed etc. Oren
On 12/8/06, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO brian.kelsay@kcc.usda.gov wrote:
I have NEVER seen a 486 with USB ports. I imagine if you had one with a PCI port, you could add a USB PCI Card. That adapter you sent a link to is for what looks like 68-pin SCSI, and his drive is probably DB25 or 50-pin or lord knows what else at that age. It's a 328MB SCSI drive. I don't know if I've even seen a SCSI drive at less than 1 or 2 GB and still knew what it was. We're talking ancient freakin history here. A&E dug up a mate to this baby next to the Sphinx.
MY reading of the Original Post was in concept to "Get the data onto a Linux box"
Thus drive removal is a viable method. And pinout not being mentioned aside- there are adapting plugs/cables out there and should be trivial to find.
Oren
MY reading of the Original Post was "get the data onto a Linux box"
I have NEVER seen a 486 with USB ports.
first generation USB happened before ISA went completely out of fashion, so ISA USB cards may exist in such places as Oren's barn. (i think)
Thus drive removal is a viable method. And pinout not being mentioned aside- there are adapting plugs/cables out there and should be trivial to find.
we still have the "but then what" question, which is, what FS does SCO use, and what partitioning scheme, and so on. If you attach the drive in question to the SCSI bus of a machine with a knoppix 4.0 CD in the cupholder and power cycle, will it automount? Alternately, if you attach a SCSI CD reader to this machine, can you boot from it? I think I have one of those sitting around gathering dust at this time.
Job is done. Success! Yes, SCO UNIX has not kicked my ass yet, even on an old 486!
Before I tell how I want to thank everyone for their help and support. You all are great!
I located a working 50-pin SCSI 1.2 GB tape drive with tape, and simply made a tar backup with this drive, added the drive and SCSI card to the new server and untarred from backup. Works like buttuh! I did not have this drive before and didn't know I would have it when I started the thread. I was hoping to get the same thing done (basically) by using a SCSI HDD. Still no joy on that front. I found out that SCO 3.2 does not have full DOS filesystem support (only for floppies) and this is why I had so much trouble with the HDD.
BTW - The software in question here is "Keypoint" software. It's mainly for the trucking industry but maybe more. They are still pushing SCO UNIX for their products. I asked about a Linux port for my clients as I wanted to get them off of SCO and on to something a little more flexible. They have made it work on Linux before. Specifically RedHat Enterprise Server. I'm doing it in Debian. Wish me luck...
On 12/8/06, David Nicol davidnicol@gmail.com wrote:
I have NEVER seen a 486 with USB ports.
first generation USB happened before ISA went completely out of fashion, so ISA USB cards may exist in such places as Oren's barn. (i think)
Thus drive removal is a viable method. And pinout not being mentioned aside- there are adapting plugs/cables out there and should be trivial to find.
we still have the "but then what" question, which is, what FS does SCO use, and what partitioning scheme, and so on. If you attach the drive in question to the SCSI bus of a machine with a knoppix 4.0 CD in the cupholder and power cycle, will it automount? Alternately, if you attach a SCSI CD reader to this machine, can you boot from it? I think I have one of those sitting around gathering dust at this time.
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