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Re: Problems with an old AIX drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan@Barratt.uk.net)
Sun Dec 12 14:58:08 1999
From: Dan@Barratt.uk.net
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 19:54:54 +0000 (GMT)
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Ahhh, 10 minutes later and the problem is solved!
Sorry it was a bit obvious that one, but thanks, I really had been trying
for days.
Dan
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Doug Ledford wrote:
> Dan@Barratt.uk.net wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've inherited a couple of old 2G SCSI drives which were previously used
> > on an AIX RISK 6000 370. My SCSI controller is an Adaptec AHA-2940 Ultra.
> >
> > The Adaptec card sees the drives, an IBM 0662 S12, and a MICROP 1924.
> >
> > Linux boots and sees the drives, although gives errors bad superblock and
> > bad magic number.
> >
> > fdisk seems to go smoothly, I can create partitions, write and exit.
> >
> > When I try to mount the drives I again get the message about the bad
> > superblock.
> >
> > I seem to have gone round in circles for a few days and have now run out
> > of ideas. I don't think the drives are faulty, and get the same error even
> > though I'm trying two different models. Is the problem that the drives are
> > ex AIX?
> >
> > All suggestions are very welcome.
>
> After you partition the drives to create linux partitions, you have to make a
> filesystem on the partition before it can be mounted. Check out the man page
> on mke2fs.
>
> --
> Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
> Opinions expressed are my own, but
> they should be everybody's.
>
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