sdimkosr5(1M)

sdimkosr5 -- Convert a disk formatted for SCO OpenServer to UnixWare

Synopsis

/sbin/sdimkosr5 device

Description

The sdimkosr5 command converts a hard disk that has previously been initialized for SCO OpenServer to the UnixWare-supported raw disk format. This allows raw disk access of existing SCO OpenServer databases either for direct reading or as input to filesystem conversion tools.

Options

sdimkosr5 takes the following option:

device

Specifies the raw device containing the disk to be converted. For example:

   sdimkosr5 /dev/rdsk/c1b0t0d0s0

Usage

The sdimkosr5 command uses the absolute Read and Write ioctls to extract the fdisk(1M) table. It then determines which is the active SCO OpenServer partition, extracts the divvy information, and writes it to disk in a UnixWare-compatible VTOC format.

In a UnixWare environment, a converted disk has no support for new bad block (UnixWare) or bad track (SCO OpenServer) remapping, but previously remapped bad tracks are still maintained.

Notices

This command cannot be run on the boot disk.

Return values

sdimkosr5 returns 0 upon success, an error message and non-zero return value otherwise.

References

fdisk(1M)