Hello all! Trying to mount a older SGI harddrive on a SuSE 9.3 system 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: Disk /dev/sda (SGI disk label): 64 heads, 32 sectors, 522 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes ----- partitions ----- Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System 1: /dev/sda1 boot 2 470 960925 a SGI xfs 2: /dev/sda2 swap 471 510 81920 3 SGI raw 9: /dev/sda3 0 1 2584 0 SGI volhdr 11: /dev/sda4 0 522 1070422 6 SGI volume ----- Bootinfo ----- Bootfile: /unix ----- Directory Entries ----- 0: sgilabel sector 2 size 512 1: ide sector 3 size 283648 2: sash sector 557 size 283648 Disk /dev/sda9 (SGI disk label): 64 heads, 32 sectors, 1 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes ----- partitions ----- Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System 1: /dev/sda9p1 boot 2 470 960925 a SGI xfs 2: /dev/sda9p2 swap 471 510 81920 3 SGI raw 9: /dev/sda9p3 0 1 2584 0 SGI volhdr 11: /dev/sda9p4 0 522 1070422 6 SGI volume ----- Bootinfo ----- Bootfile: /unix ----- Directory Entries ----- 0: sgilabel sector 2 size 512 1: ide sector 3 size 283648 2: sash sector 557 size 283648 Disk /dev/sda11 (SGI disk label): 64 heads, 32 sectors, 522 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes ----- partitions ----- Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System 1: /dev/sda11p1 boot 2 470 960925 a SGI xfs 2: /dev/sda11p2 swap 471 510 81920 3 SGI raw 9: /dev/sda11p3 0 1 2584 0 SGI volhdr 11: /dev/sda11p4 0 522 1070422 6 SGI volume ----- Bootinfo ----- Bootfile: /unix ----- Directory Entries ----- 0: sgilabel sector 2 size 512 1: ide sector 3 size 283648 2: sash sector 557 size 283648 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 XFS: log mount/recovery failed: error 5 XFS: log mount failed EFS: partition table contained no EFS partitions desktop:~ # mount -t udf /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 XFS: log mount/recovery failed: error 5 XFS: log mount failed EFS: partition table contained no EFS partitions UDF-fs: No VRS found How can i mount this system and recover my files? --  --          /Rikard ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- email   : rikard.j@rikjoh.com web     : http://www.rikjoh.com mob     : +46 (0)736 19 76 25 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78  46 1C EE 56 >