diff. XENIX problems: need SCSI-Support, move XENIX to another HD, ...
Maik Toma
Hi to all XENIX-gurus,
this is the first time for me to work with SCOs XENIX (2.3.x) and i give
up,
if nobody would help me now....
Scenario: - XENIX 386 2.3.2 (?) works fine on a IDE drive
- installed is a WANGTEK Streamer with its own Controller
Now i try to have: - XENIX AND MS-DOS/MS Windows 3.11 on the same IDE
drive
- support for a ADAPTEC 1542CF with a TANDBERG TDC4120 Streamer
attached
for both operating systems (no problem for DOS)
- access to all my data i've installed before (XENIX data)
My problem is, that i don't know HOW to do this.
How can i format my NEW IDE drive and how must i create my partitions ?
Which boot-manager can i use ?
How to include SCSI support for my ADAPTEC Controller ?
How to backup my data on the WANGTEK and how to restore it on the
TANDBERG ?
Should i use an E-IDE drive or won't XENIX suport this ?
Please send any hints directly to mailto:maik...@muehlheim.de
and SORRY for my broken english...
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So long, C U L8er, yrs. Maik
mailto:maik...@muehlheim.de
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Paul Amedee
Maik Toma wrote:
>
> Hi to all XENIX-gurus,
>
> this is the first time for me to work with SCOs XENIX (2.3.x) and i give
> up,
> if nobody would help me now....
>
> Scenario: - XENIX 386 2.3.2 (?) works fine on a IDE drive
> - installed is a WANGTEK Streamer with its own Controller
>
> Now i try to have: - XENIX AND MS-DOS/MS Windows 3.11 on the same IDE
> drive
> - support for a ADAPTEC 1542CF with a TANDBERG TDC4120 Streamer
> attached
> for both operating systems (no problem for DOS)
> - access to all my data i've installed before (XENIX data)
>
> My problem is, that i don't know HOW to do this.
> How can i format my NEW IDE drive and how must i create my partitions ?
> Which boot-manager can i use ?
> How to include SCSI support for my ADAPTEC Controller ?
> How to backup my data on the WANGTEK and how to restore it on the
> TANDBERG ?
> Should i use an E-IDE drive or won't XENIX suport this ?
>
> Please send any hints directly to mailto:maik...@muehlheim.de
> and SORRY for my broken english...
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
First of all lets get the EIDE thing straight. Xenix won't support it so unless
you have a drive < 540 MB, don't waste your time. Xenix will, however, support
a SCSI drive > 540 MB so you may want to consider this.
Second, Xenix can not see a DOS partition before DOS 3.3. You will have to boot
up DOS 3.3 and use its fdisk to create the DOS partition. This is fine though
since Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 will work fine with the DOS 3.3 partition.
Your last problem is getting the old data onto the new drive. I guess you probably
have 2 choices, either reinstall Xenix and then drop the restore down or
use a commercial backup product like BackupEdge to create a master backup and
the emergency RecoverEdge disks. And then use the RecoverEdge disks to put
Xenix onto the new drive.
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hpmsi
I've used DOS 5.0 a number of times to create DOS partitions and Xenix
has no problem with it as long as it < 32MB?
Scott Fuller hp...@cris.com
<snip>
alan squyres
In article <332E35...@metronet.de>, maik...@metronet.de says...
>
Item 1: you must have a version of Xenix called 386GT to include SCSI
support. You probably have 386AT.
Item 2: On your initial installation to the new drive, create a DOS
partition first, the install Xenix.
Item 3: Xenix has no conception of IDE; it uses the ST-506 type drivers
for IDE adaptors/disks. Easy solution: keep drive sizes below
500 MB.
Suggestion: back up your relevant data onto the operating tape drive,
then do whatever to get an OS onto the new partition/drive,
restore the back-up data, then change the tape drive (or just
add the SCSI - 386GT will support both types of tapes at the
same time. Don't forget to create the DOS partition FIRST.
<als>
Paul Amedee
hpmsi wrote:
>
> I've used DOS 5.0 a number of times to create DOS partitions and Xenix
> has no problem with it as long as it < 32MB?
>
> Scott Fuller hp...@cris.com
>
> <snip>
You can dosdir the disk and doscp files back & forth? That's interesting!
Maybe it just requires <32 MB. This was also the limit under DOS 3.3.
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