SUMMARY: Recovery OSF HD

From: Sergio Edo. Miranda <sem_at_cec.uchile.cl>
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 14:01:34 EST
Original Question:
> Hi, i have a HD that used to lived in a DEC (OSF/1)
> The machine dies and i need to recover the information.
> I connect the disk in a Solaris box, and the system see the
> disk and with  format i can see the partitions.
> format ask me to label the disk, but i dont want to destroy
> anything, so i  answer no. When i try to mount a partition it complains a
> corrupt label and an I/O error.

The answer is that the filesystems will be incompatible, so the best way
is to find another DEC machine to recover the disk or try in a linux box
with the apropiate modules.
I havent tried the last one
Thanks to

"Reichert, Alan" <aareichert@tasc.com>
Steve Mickeler <steve@neptune.ca>
mike.salehi@kodak.com
algol@lcc.ufmg.br
"Weigert, Daniel" <DWeigert@cirqit.com>
David Evans <David.J.Evans@oracle.com>
Thomas M. Payerle <payerle@physics.umd.edu>
"Broun, Bevan" <brounb@adi-limited.com>
anthony.miller@vf.vodafone.co.uk
Steve Hunt <steve.h@gordian.co.uk>
Dave Mitchell <davem@fdgroup.co.uk>

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Sergio Edo. Miranda
Area de Ingenieria - CEC
Universidad de Chile
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