Reading old Solaris drives?

I have a stack of old hard drives from a SPARCstation. I
want to archive 
their data before disposing them. My preference is to mount
them on a 
Linux system so I can dump them to one of my regular
backup/archive 
tapes, but so far I haven't found the right mount command
yet.

I've been googling around for this, but haven't found a good
procedure 
yet. Any advice welcome. Here's what fdisk has to say about
the first drive:

[rootsmete10 ~]# fdisk /dev/sda
Detected sun disklabel with wrong checksum.
Probably you'll have to set all the values,
e.g. heads, sectors, cylinders and partitions
or force a fresh label (s command in main menu)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 528
cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Flag    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1          2673      2698    193242    2  SunOS root
/dev/sda2  u       2845      2862    131449+   3  SunOS swap
/dev/sda3             0       522   4191778+   5  Whole disk
/dev/sda4          2962      2995    262899    4  SunOS usr
/dev/sda5             0       125   1001038+   0  Empty
/dev/sda6           891      1016   1001038+   0  Empty
/dev/sda7          1782      1907   1001038+   0  Empty
/dev/sda8          3196      3271    601072+   8  SunOS home

TIA, Paul

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University of California at Berkeley
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Hi Paul,

In the past, I've had a hard time mounting UFS from Linux.  
There's a 
large variation in UFS file systems, which doesn't help.  If
you have a 
very modern Linux distribution, you could try:

mount -o ufstype=sun -tufs /dev/sda8 /mnt

Let me know if this works for you.  Could be handy if it
does.

Jon

Paul Mackinney wrote:
> I have a stack of old hard drives from a SPARCstation.
I want to 
> archive their data before disposing them. My preference
is to mount 
> them on a Linux system so I can dump them to one of my
regular 
> backup/archive tapes, but so far I haven't found the
right mount 
> command yet.
>
> I've been googling around for this, but haven't found a
good procedure 
> yet. Any advice welcome. Here's what fdisk has to say
about the first 
> drive:
>
> [rootsmete10 ~]# fdisk /dev/sda
> Detected sun disklabel with wrong checksum.
> Probably you'll have to set all the values,
> e.g. heads, sectors, cylinders and partitions
> or force a fresh label (s command in main menu)
>
> Command (m for help): p
>
> Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors,
528 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
>   Device Flag    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1          2673      2698    193242    2  SunOS
root
> /dev/sda2  u       2845      2862    131449+   3  SunOS
swap
> /dev/sda3             0       522   4191778+   5  Whole
disk
> /dev/sda4          2962      2995    262899    4  SunOS
usr
> /dev/sda5             0       125   1001038+   0  Empty
> /dev/sda6           891      1016   1001038+   0  Empty
> /dev/sda7          1782      1907   1001038+   0  Empty
> /dev/sda8          3196      3271    601072+   8  SunOS
home
>
> TIA, Paul
>

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