I need to recover data from the disk of a dead Sparc2. I've been trying to mount the disk to my RedHat6.2 system (Intel) with no success. Is it even possible?

Disk - Seagate ST41600N - 1.3GB
OS - SunOS 4.1.x

What works:

* SCSI target ID read successfully at boot time.
* Disk verify successful by Adaptec SCSISelect Utility.
* /dev/sdc recognized as existing by Linux:

(scsi0:0:5:0) Synchronous at 5.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST41600N SUN1.3G Rev: 0040
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0

What doesn't work:

* At Linux boot:

SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2676846 [1307
MB] [1.3 GB]
sdc: unknown partition table

* fdisk -l /dev/sdc:

Detected sun disklabel with wrong checksum.
Probably you'll have to set all the values,
e.g. heads, sectors, cylinders and partitions
or force a fresh label (s command in main menu)

Disk /dev/sdc (Sun disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 166
cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc3 0 167 1336200 0 Empty
/dev/sdc7 0 167 1336200 0 Empty


What can I do without damaging the data on the disk?

Regards,
Jerry

Do you have Sun disklabel support in your kernel (partitions)?

I don't know. How would I find out? I'm running RedHat 6.2 Deluxe version. It looks like the kernal is 2.2.14-5.0.