How to mount and read vintage scsi HDD


 
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Old 12-02-2008
How to mount and read vintage scsi HDD

I started on another thread and full story can be seen here: https://www.unix.com/security/91428-h...-system-v.html

But my situation turned to land on this thread now.

I have old scsi HDD out of the UHC UNIX System V Rel. 4.0 Version 3.6 box. And need to read it somehow on another box. Installed Ubuntu linux, but cant mount it. There is what i have (i need to read Maxtor scasi disk):


:~$ sudo cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: MAXTOR Model: LXT-340S Rev: 6.73
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA Model: HDS722580VLAT20 Rev: V32O
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
Vendor: Optiarc Model: DVD RW AD-5170A Rev: 1.11
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 05

:~$ sudo dmesg | grep scsi
[ 8.926221] scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 7.0
[ 8.950492] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access MAXTOR LXT-340S 6.73 PQ: 0 ANSI: 1 CCS
[ 8.950564] scsi target0:0:0: Beginning Domain Validation
[ 8.955245] scsi target0:0:0: Ending Domain Validation
[ 8.957703] scsi1 : pata_via
[ 8.958090] scsi2 : pata_via
[ 9.348617] scsi: waiting for bus probes to complete ...
[ 10.541503] scsi 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 10.543664] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA HDS722580VLAT20 V32O PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 10.544425] scsi 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[ 10.545977] scsi 2:0:1:0: CD-ROM Optiarc DVD RW AD-5170A 1.11 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 10.546636] scsi 2:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5
[ 11.311560] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 11.311903] sr 2:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0

:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 340 MB, 340558848 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 324 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x46df0dca
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda3 1 16 16368 1 FAT12
/dev/sda4 * 17 324 315392 63 GNU HURD or SysV
Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000a7ade

:~$ sudo mount -t sysv /dev/sda /mnt/maxtor
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda4,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so


Anybody knows what can be wrong here? Or how to read it?
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Old 12-05-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by 82026
Code:
sudo mount -t sysv /dev/sda /mnt/maxtor
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda4,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

You should mount /dev/sda4 since, according to your post, this is what fdisk -l sees as a valid partition. Mounting /dev/sda mounts the device as if there were no partition table there at all!
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