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07-21-2021 06:59 AM
07-21-2021 06:59 AM
HP9000 Model 715 /100 HP-UX v9.05 MediaInit Disk Lower than 2G
Hi All thank you for reading
I have some (6) HP9000/715 Workstations running HP-UX 9.05
Attempting to Install new HDD and do a mirror function
ioscan (Looks OK)
mediainit (Looks OK)
diskinfo (Looks OK)
But "newfs" is failing .... I suspect there is a 2G barrier on the boot disk, our disk is 4.55G
I know there must be a way around it as the current disk is a Seagate ST3452N 4.55G
The end result is to clone the existing drive as a bootable backup .....
So any advice welcome given the limitations of v9.05
Thank you for any help
Andy
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07-21-2021 02:02 PM
07-21-2021 02:02 PM
Re: HP9000 Model 715 /100 HP-UX v9.05 MediaInit Disk Lower than 2G
> I have some (6) HP9000/715 Workstations running HP-UX 9.05
I remember that such things once existed.
> But "newfs" is failing .... I suspect there is a 2G barrier on the
> boot disk, our disk is 4.55G
That would not amaze me.
> [...] the current disk is a Seagate ST3452N 4.55G
> [...] clone the existing drive [...]
"ST34520N"? "current disk"? "existing drive"? What, exactly, is
what, exactly?
Have you looked at how the old disk is partitioned? If newfs is
complaining (about the new disk), then I'd guess that you'd need to have
partitions no larger than 2GB.
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07-22-2021 02:48 AM
07-22-2021 02:48 AM
Re: HP9000 Model 715 /100 HP-UX v9.05 MediaInit Disk Lower than 2G
Hi Thank you
I have now managed to clone my primary disk using the commands :-
mediainit /dev/rdsk/c201d0s0
/etc/diskinfo -v /dev/rdsk/c201d0s0
then
dd if=/dev/rdsk/c201d6s0 of=/dev/rdsk/c201d0s0 bs=1024k
I am getting IPL bad address errors on boot ..... Again guessing due to my destination disk being over 2Gig
Is there a command to "Format" the disk to the limit that HP-UX 9.05 wants (Less thann 4.5Gig)
Andy
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08-30-2021 03:44 AM
08-30-2021 03:44 AM
Re: HP9000 Model 715 /100 HP-UX v9.05 MediaInit Disk Lower than 2G
Greetings,
The extent size will have to be increased if you want to use extra disk space. Otherwise, with the existing extent size the max size possible (out of 4.55 G) will be used. I am not sure if this would cause any issue.
The IPL address error seems more to do with the header issue which means the copying had some problems. Since the version of HP-UX is very old, I don't really have any means to check.
If you have not referred already, this old thread may be of some use - Solved: Creating an image boot disk - Hewlett Packard Enterprise Community (hpe.com)
I am a HPE Employee
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08-30-2021 05:29 AM
08-30-2021 05:29 AM
Re: HP9000 Model 715 /100 HP-UX v9.05 MediaInit Disk Lower than 2G
I think to remember when copying the boot area for old HP-UX versions the blocksize has to be 2k for dd command.
Hope this helps!
Regards
Torsten.
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09-09-2021 05:35 AM
09-09-2021 05:35 AM
Re: HP9000 Model 715 /100 HP-UX v9.05 MediaInit Disk Lower than 2G
Hi,
Have you had any luck with this setup? Hope the previous link was of some use.
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