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Seagate 9GB SCSI Drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Miller)
Thu Nov 7 14:07:13 1996
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 13:37:55 -0600
From: Tim Miller <tim@Quantum.Phy.Vanderbilt.Edu>
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Reply-to: tim@Quantum.Phy.Vanderbilt.Edu
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Hey gang!
First of all, the good news! I just bought a Buslogic 958 Fast/Wide
SCSI controller (PCI). Recompiled the kernel, rebooted, installed
the card, rebooted again and PRESTO! The card was found!
I attach the SEAGATE 9GB drive and presto! It was found, correctly
identified, etc etc...wonderful! Thank God for Linux!
Now, since what I want to do isn't exactly standard, there is one
snag. This 9GB drive was recently on a DEC Alpha running Digital
UNIX 4.0. Unfortunately, the ALPHA is no longer available. However,
I would like to be able to get the data off the drive. Not
surprisingly, the BIOS crap is causing problems reading the partitions
(read that fdisk shows NO partitiions) and I also get this message:
Warning: invalid flag ff60 of partition table 4 will be corrected
by w(rite)
Now, I'm not all that heart broken about losing the data on the disk.
BUT, when the ALPHA returns, I do want the ALPHA to be able to read
the partitions. So, now the questions:
1) Anyone know what heads/cylinders/etc in order to read the
Seagate drive as partitioned by Digital UNIX 4.0 (ufs fs)?
2) Is there an interrim filesystem type readable by both Linux
and Digital UNIX 4.0 so that I can repartition the disk now
and use it on the alpha later (NFS from the Linux to Alpha
not an option)
3) (Although I already know the answer to this) Should I install
Linux/Alpha on the should to save myself the headaches?
Thanks in advance,
Tim
P.S. If I do end up installing Linux/Alpha, anyone know if
Digital Fortran would work on it??? (prolly not, but I
can hope) And yes, I need a very reliable fortran
compiler (*grumble*) and I don't think g77 would do.
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