Problems cloning EFI Fiery XJ170Plus (XJ170+) server drive
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Greetings to the forum. I am hopeful that someone may be able to help me with this problem.
I have an old Fiery XJ170+ RIP server that is used with a Ricoh printer. Electronics for Imaging (EFI) no longer supports this machine. However, the server boots and works correctly.
I became concerned that, once this very old hard drive failed, the server would be useless, so I went about obtaining a replacement drive, intending to clone the old drive.
The drive is an 850 MB Quantum Trailblazer Fast SCSI drive.
So, I obtained a replacement 2.1 GB SCSI drive and placed both drives in my 586 XP machine.
XP can see both drives. The server drive displays the correct capacity, but unallocated.
So, I initially tied to do a sector-by-sector copy. I did not format the destination drive. This failed with the following message:
My next attempt was to create a disk image from the drive in a folder on a NTFS formatted USB drive. For size I used 1000000000.
This fails with the message:
I then thought that something was wrong with the source drive, so I put it back in the server where it booted correctly.
Can anyone suggest any strategies to clone this drive, or identify from the error messages what is going wrong?
Last edit: Bruno Soldier 2015-07-07
Which version of Clonezilla live did you use?
If you can, try all the versions here:
http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
The testing ones come with updated Linux kernel, and the buntu-based comes with some non-free kernel modules which might help.
Steven.
Thanks -
I used 2-4-2-10-i586.
I'll try the others and report back.
No luck with making a disk image using any of the versions. I get the same error.
What do these errors mean?
Unknown partition table format for file /tmp/ocs_onthefly_local.dh9CUh/src-pt.parted!
no input device!
If I am making a sector-by-sector disk-to-disk clone, what issues could cause a copy to fail?
Can anyone suggest any other way to clone this disk?
Last edit: Bruno Soldier 2015-07-21
Could you please give Clonezilla live
20150731-wily
20150731-vivid
or
2.4.2-29
a try?
You can find them on
http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
Thanks.
Steven.