On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Ray Abbitt wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > > > On Monday 14 July 2003 22:59, Pablo L. Robles wrote this in an attempt > > to be witty and informative: > > > Hello Gang: > > > > > > I have some customer valuable data on a SCO HD. The HD has some bad > > > sectors the prevent it from booting. I have no access to other SCO > > > machines. Looked all over the fdisk and format man pages but still > > > don't know of a way to mount the SCO disk with RH 7.3, I even > > > connected the drive but it doesn't recognize the filesystem type. Is > > > this HD gone to heaven or there's still a way to retreive the data on > > > the HD? > > > > > You might have to look into a professional data recovery service. > > > But he might have a chance. It will be a fair amount of work to even > try though. Assuming a stock RedHat kernel, the support for the SCO > filesystem is not included. (I can't remember off the top of my head > which type it is though.) So you would have to compile a new kernel > with support for that filesystem type. And then there is a chance that > you could mount the drive (you will probably have to use -t > [filesystemtype] and maybe recover some of the data. It's worth a try. > (And if you haven't compiled your own kernel before, you will probably > learn something) You can probably get away with loading the redhat > config into menuconfig, adding the filesystem support as a module, > doing a make modules and a make modules_install without replacing > the actual kernel. (I've done similar things to add support for other > hardware)
The caveat I think is to find linux support for SCO file system. I tried this 3-4 years ago and could not find any linux kernel support for their file system. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
