Murfe was once rumoured to have said:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a Digital unix box which i need to pull some data off. I have
> pulled the harddisk and chucked it in a Linux box and am now trying to
> mount the disk. I have read some doco which points to Digital Unix using
> UFS but also have heard that it uses ADVfs? I have tried mounting this
> disk using;
>
> #mount -t ufs /dev/sda /mnt/hdd
>
> and get the output
>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
> or too many mounted file systems
Yes, because you're trying to mount the disklabel. Not a good idea.
> and the realavent part of my dmesg is
>
[snip]
> SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17773524 [8678 MB] [8.7
> GB]
> sda: unknown partition table
>
> Any ideas guys?
Yup! You need to build Alpha OSF disklabel support into your kernel
(I'm assuming the machine you took the disk from is a OSF/1 /
DigitalUnix / Tru64 box).
C.
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