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: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Opinions expressed are my own, but > they should be everybody's. > ------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
