Mounting very old (NCR SysV) drives

[Madison Kelly]

Hi all,

   This is a question looking for help under Linux or FreeBSD (I know 
it's not linux, but I figured some of you guys/gals could help none the 
less).

   I've been asked to try and get the data off a couple 15 year old 
(SCSI) drives from an old NCR SysV Unix server. I used 'dd' to image the 
drives under linux, so I'm sort of okay with experimenting now.

   Anyway, Linux recognized the drives as 'sysv' or 'hurd' disks, but I 
couldn't mount them even after loading the 'sysv' module. There was very 
little info on the net about this, so I decided to try FreeBSD (being 
more "Unix") but I am not terribly familiar with it. Under BSD 'fdisk 
-s' doesn't show the drives, but the BSD boot loader does (asks if I 
want to boot off the old drive when it's online).

   So, anyone here have any advice/suggestions for me under either OS? 
If this is too OT, maybe someone could ping me off the list?

Thanks kindly all!

Madi
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