swapping external drives to test
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by Bill Degnan - 09/16/2026 11:06 |
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If you're working through a few unknown external Sun drives, the SunOS 4.1.4 system can be used to triage the drives for an initial inspection:
1. Set each drive tested to 3 2. From the # prompt: dd if=/dev/rsd0c bs=64k count=1 | strings | head -n 5 ...if the computer returns something like SUN2.1G, SUN4.2G, or lists specific partition names (like /usr, /export), the drive is a native Sun disk. 3. run the command dumpfs /dev/rsd0g | head if "g" does not work swap in letters a through h until you find it tells your the hardware cylinders etc. this will help you know which drives you can then mount etc. 4. mount -t pcfs /dev/sd0c /mnt/check_drive Reply |
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