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[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rikard,

On Saturday 05 November 2005 01:53, Rikard Johnels wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> Trying to mount a older SGI harddrive on a SuSE 9.3 system

The first hint: "older SGI harddrive."


> After loading the scsi driver it detects the drive ok, But i cant
> mount anything.
> I need to recover some files from it and have no access to a SGI box.
>
> fdisk shows:
> ...
>
>
> mount /dev/sda1 /media/cdrom/
> mount: /dev/sda1: can't read superblock
>
> desktop:~ # mount /dev/sda4 /media/cdrom/
> mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device
>
> desktop:~ # mount /dev/sda11 /media/cdrom/
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda11,
>        missing codepage or other error
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so
>
> desktop:~ # dmesg |tail
>
> XFS mounting filesystem sda1
> XFS: nil uuid in log - IRIX style log
> Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: sda1 (dev: sda1)
> XFS: dirty log written in incompatible format - can't recover

Hunch confirmed: Your "older" XFS is not compatible.


> XFS: log mount/recovery failed: error 5
> XFS: log mount failed
> EFS: partition table contained no EFS partitions
>
> ...
>
>
> How can i mount this system and recover my files?

Find someone with an SGI system.


Randall Schulz