Hi people, i'm new of this group . In this moment I am repairing a VME
system very similar to a sun sparc-3x. The Hd probably contains a Unix
System V. My problem is to go to read the content of the hard disk
since the machine does not make the boot and i must know if it is the
hard disk that it has lost the content or it is the machine that is out
of order. I have attacked therefore the HD to the scsi card of my PC,
the system reveals it correctly but since file system is not
compatible with Windows it reveals nothing. How I make to read the
content of the hard disk? there is an utility that allow to read a file
system that differs from the classics ntfs or fat?

> Hi people, i'm new of this group . In this moment I am repairing a VME
> system very similar to a sun sparc-3x. The Hd probably contains a Unix
> System V. My problem is to go to read the content of the hard disk
> since the machine does not make the boot and i must know if it is the
> hard disk that it has lost the content or it is the machine that is out
> of order. I have attacked therefore the HD to the scsi card of my PC,
> the system reveals it correctly but since file system is not
> compatible with Windows it reveals nothing. How I make to read the
> content of the hard disk? there is an utility that allow to read a file
> system that differs from the classics ntfs or fat?

Why not get a Solaris x86 CD and boot in single-user mode on the PC? If the
filesystem is one Solaris understands, then you should be able to mount it
or fsck it and then mount it to see what it contains. Should a good fsck be
what it needs, then you can pull this off and then put it back into the
original machine to see what happens.

Trinean

On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 19:57:11 -0400, Trinean wrote:

>> Hi people, i'm new of this group . In this moment I am repairing a VME
>> system very similar to a sun sparc-3x. The Hd probably contains a Unix
>> System V. My problem is to go to read the content of the hard disk

> Why not get a Solaris x86 CD and boot in single-user mode on the PC?

Good try, but Solaris x86 does not have the capability of mounting or
reading SPARC UFS. There is some possibility that a SPARC machine might
do so or even a Linux which has been compiled to read SPARC UFS.