Unix Problem

Dear guest, whatisyourname, there is no disk to disk copy like the msdos diskcopy. But you can use dd (diskdump) command. You will have to connect a freshly formatted HDD with the exact slices as the original disk. I don't much Digital Unix but old version of unix in general allowed s7 (Slice 7) covering entire disk, but this is not so nowadays. So you create matching slices and using dd command make disk-to-disk copy. I don't about Digital Unix, as already told, but in Solaris we use it like dd if=/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 of=/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 etc. Try your luck and let me know, meanwhile I get some help from colleague who familiar with Digitial Unix.

I'm not so sure that dd will work. It seems like there is a hard read error on the boot slice or on a slice that is read during bootup. If you try to dump the slice that has the hard error, you will end up with a corrupted slice that most likely will be unreadable. You may need to go in with a binary or hex editor and try to "fix" the corrupted area (that assumes that you know what is SUPPOSED to be in the corrupted area). Then again, I may be misunderstanding the problem (as has happened before... 8^( ) and I may be thinking the problem is more complicated than it really is. Anyway, Good Luck

First Of All the failure must be cleared. For solaris the command "format" and then "repair" works in most cases (in some cases you may not recover the data). And then if you can clone the whole HDD that would be nicer, using ufsdump and then ufsrestore (these were the commands for solaris).Step by step after you make the partitions and partition sizes similar to the original one and NEWFS them: 1-boot from CDROM 2-mount /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0 /mnt (t2 is the controller name for the new HDD) 3-ufsdump 0f - /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 | (cd /mnt; ufsrestore xf -) 4-if this is not a booting HDD switch off the machine and plug in the new HDD instead of old one. If it is booting HDD #umount /mnt,#cd /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs,#installboot bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s0. Good luck

Always need a plan B. The next time make a backup!