Question on disk device files on non SGI disks

[jaholden]

Hey all,

A friend of mine has asked if I can dd image a SCSI disk he has.

It‘s not SGI partitioned or formatted, maybe MBR or Sun. Will it show up as only /dev/dsk/dksXdYvol where X and Y are controller and device?

ie: I can dd the whole disk from start to finish regardless of partition scheme.

Thanks,

j

 

[Elf]

Although I have not tried attaching a disk without an SGI disklabel in IRIX, I expect you would see the vol device show up and that does represent the entire disk. Perhaps verify the size of the dumped file?

 

[jaholden]

Although I have not tried attaching a disk without an SGI disklabel in IRIX, I expect you would see the vol device show up and that does represent the entire disk. Perhaps verify the size of the dumped file?

Thanks! That’s what I suspected. I guess I’m looking for a the equivalent of /dev/sdX on Linux.

I suppose another way of putting it would be “how does Iris see an unpartioned disk?”

 

[TruHobbyist]

Hiya!

Sure you can just plugin the drive and it will allow you to access it through raw and cooked mode for both *vol and *vh (at the very least). This should be enough to dd it.