On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 07:24:04PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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?
Mounting means attaching the filesystem on the device to the big file
hierarchy rooted at /. There is no filesystem on your disk, so attempts
to mount are meaningless. Make a filesystem, say with mke2fs.
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