Hi,
I've got critical data on an ibm deskstar 120GB drive. The drive was formated for ext2 and run in a Mac with gentoo ppc. The drive has one partition that was used for an rsync mirror via LAN. The drive in question:
hdd: [mac] hdd1 hdd2 hdd3 hdd4 hdd5
The problems.
1. When attempting to mount the drive on an x86 machine the following errors are reported:
[root@parker parker]# mount -t ext2 /dev/hdd /mnt/mirror/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd,
or too many mounted file systems
FDISK REPORT
Code:
Disk /dev/hdd: 123.5 GB, 123522416640 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 239340 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
The Mac computer that this drive was used in is not in my possesion. So, I've put the mirror and its accompanying OS drive into a different Mac, booted and found the partition in place and the data is readable. However, attempts to rsync from this machine causes the box to thrash memory or something to the point where the box must be power cycled. I can get a terminal to appear but attempts to login fail by never going beyound the user name.
Apparently I've got three options; A, figure out how to mount this drive B, figure out why the new PPC machine thrashes. A third option could be to 'dd' an image of mirror drive to another. I don't know if dd would gather the data from a drive where the partition can't be seen. This third option isn't particularly attractive because I haven't got a drive large enough to put the image on and can't afford to purchase one.
I really need some help with this because the data is critical and needs to be worked on yesterday.
ron
