Subject: Re: System crash - how to read data
To: salo <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
From: Andreas Priebe <andreas.priebe@promos-consult.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/18/2001 15:32:34
> > At this point I decided to trie to read the SCSI disk on another machine.
> > But the only one I have is a Linux PC running a 2.2 kernel.
> > It recognizes the disk on startup, but says:
> > 
> >  sda: unknown partition table
> > 
> > And if I try to mount e.g. /dev/sda1 it complains
> > 
> >  /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
> > 
> > So this got us to the second question:
> > Do I have any chance to recover my data mounting the disk on Linux?
> 
> boot netbsd kernel from cd or instalation/rescue floppy and mount your netbsd
> partition(s) on this linux machine. (it will become netbsd machine, though :)

I have a Adaptec 1502. Any chance this is supported by a rescue floppy
or NetBSD install CD?

Andreas
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