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: -- # 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 ----- -- I added the following to /etc/raw: -- raw1:sdd1 raw2:sdd2 raw3:sdd3 raw4:sdd4 raw5:sdd5 raw6:sdd6 -- ...but then I get this error: -- # /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 -- 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: -- Sorry, could not find valid secondary superblock Exiting now. -- 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?? TIA, Martin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org