21 Jul
2003
21 Jul
'03
1:13 p.m.
At 09:33 PM 7/17/2003 +0000, you wrote:
It gives some sort of number instead of HFS or LIF.
I was hoping it had gotten farther along.
Thanks
Max
At 11:09 AM 7/16/03 -0700, you wrote:
I am fairly sure that is correct. Its at work and I am at home though
Hello,
I am new to the list.
My classic computer collection is mainly DEC but I
must use "classic" HPs at work. Hence my current
problem.
We have multiple HP9000/300 computers connected via SRM
to a HP9826 computer running SRM ver 3.12. We also
have several standalone Viper board based PCs.
A 7937? Are you sure that's the right model number? I don't recognize it
and it's not in my configuration book. (I'm too tired/lazy to go dig
through the catalogs.) I have backups
Yep, I can boot. But the backup tapes are not bootable. And the SRM software
chokes in the Viper board. Complains that a drive is not attached to the high
speed buss.
made with a HP9144 tape drive.
We could buy a refurbished drive. We were quoted $1300
for a HP7937. I would like to avoid that. Since I only
need a few files from the backup and my application
could run from the Viper board, if I could get the
files into a MS-DOS format, my problem would be solved.
I quess you don't know that you CAN boot from a 9144. I read in one of
the HP manuals that you could but they said that they don't recommend it
except in cases of emergencies. I had plenty of 9144s and tapes and wasn't
worried about wearing them out so I tried it and it worked! It took about
15 minutes instead of 5 seconds, but it worked! Also do you HAVE to have a 7937? I have some 7957s,
7958, 9153s and
other CS-80 drives.
If I go back with the origianl configuration, I need a "large" drive. I
think the
7937 is 571 meg.
???? If the dead drive isn't the boot device then
why can't you boot and
then read the files from the tape? Then just dunp it over a null MODEM
cable to a PC or other computer of your choice. Or you can put it on a
floppy disks and use the LIF Utils to read that into a PC. The LIF Utils
are now public domain and can be downloaded from several places on the net
including from HP.
I am not sure I have enough free room on the remaining drive. We had though of
just blowing away the files on the remaining and installing the backup to
it. However,
while we have backups we have are hesitant to take a production system down for
this. The SRM backup may not even be LIF. I only get 1 entry when I read it
from a booted Viper board. Basic does seem to know
what to do with it. And I
can't boot the Viper with SRM.
Couple of questions:
1) What format is the SRM backups in? LIF? HFS? Other?
AFIK backups aren't in any specail or compressed format. They're in the
same format as the operating drives. I've neve rused the SRM OS so I don't
know what format it uses but if you do a CAT of a drive it will tell you at
the top of the listing what the format is. 2) Peter Brown,
would you share your software?
I'm sure that he will share it but it's not going to help much. It just
does a raw data dump. It doesn't care about directories, sub-directories,
file allocation or anything else. it just starts at sector 1 bit 1 and
dumps the entire drive.