Hi all,
I have 2 SCSI disks which were used on an (old) Silicon Graphics running on
IRIX 6.5.x
I need to recover the data from those disks, dump them somewhere else and
forget about the SGI disks...
OpenSUSE 11 sees the devices correctly and with fdisk I can see the partitions:
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# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda (SGI disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
----- partitions -----
Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System
1: /dev/sda1 boot 66 2213 34510368 a SGI xfs
2: /dev/sda2 swap 1 65 1048576 3 SGI raw
9: /dev/sda3 0 0 4096 0 SGI volhdr
11: /dev/sda4 0 2213 35563040 6 SGI volume
----- Bootinfo -----
Bootfile: /unix
----- Directory Entries -----
0: sash sector 2 size 273408
1: ide sector 536 size 249856
2: symmon sector 1024 size 1113600
# fdisk -l /dev/sdd
Disk /dev/sdd (SGI disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
----- partitions -----
Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System
3: /dev/sdd1 1 16 262144 3 SGI raw
4: /dev/sdd2 17 32 262144 3 SGI raw
5: /dev/sdd3 33 293 4194304 3 SGI raw
6: /dev/sdd4 294 555 4194304 3 SGI raw
7: /dev/sdd5 556 816 4194304 3 SGI raw
8: /dev/sdd6 817 1077 4194304 3 SGI raw
9: /dev/sdd7 0 0 4096 0 SGI volhdr
11: /dev/sdd8 0 2213 35563040 6 SGI volume
----- Bootinfo -----
Bootfile: /unix
----- Directory Entries -----
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I added the following to /etc/raw:
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raw1:sdd1
raw2:sdd2
raw3:sdd3
raw4:sdd4
raw5:sdd5
raw6:sdd6
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...but then I get this error:
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# /etc/init.d/raw start
bind /dev/raw/raw1 to /dev/sdd1... failed
bind /dev/raw/raw2 to /dev/sdd2... failed
bind /dev/raw/raw3 to /dev/sdd3... failed
bind /dev/raw/raw4 to /dev/sdd4... failed
bind /dev/raw/raw5 to /dev/sdd5... failed
bind /dev/raw/raw6 to /dev/sdd6... failed
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Later on I found this thread:
http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2005-11/msg00376.html
and this FAQ:
http://linux.math.tifr.res.in/programming-doc/xfs/faq.html#xfsmountfail
when I run xfs_repair -n /dev/sda or /dev/sdd (-n = no modify mode) it yields
the following message:
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Sorry, could not find valid secondary superblock
Exiting now.
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So...
my questions are: how destructive can a xfs_repair be in terms of
destroying all the data (disk image is already made) be? and is there
any way to access those devices??
I first asked this questions on the SuSE lists and I've been redirected here ;-)
TIA,
Martin
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