Reading old Solaris drives?

From: Paul Mackinney <paul_at_me.berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:25:47 -0800

I have a stack of old hard drives from a SPARCstation. I want to archive
their data before disposing them. My preference is to mount them on a
Linux system so I can dump them to one of my regular backup/archive
tapes, but so far I haven't found the right mount command yet.

I've been googling around for this, but haven't found a good procedure
yet. Any advice welcome. Here's what fdisk has to say about the first drive:

[root_at_smete10 ~]# fdisk /dev/sda
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)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 528 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2673 2698 193242 2 SunOS root
/dev/sda2 u 2845 2862 131449+ 3 SunOS swap
/dev/sda3 0 522 4191778+ 5 Whole disk
/dev/sda4 2962 2995 262899 4 SunOS usr
/dev/sda5 0 125 1001038+ 0 Empty
/dev/sda6 891 1016 1001038+ 0 Empty
/dev/sda7 1782 1907 1001038+ 0 Empty
/dev/sda8 3196 3271 601072+ 8 SunOS home

TIA, Paul

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Paul Mackinney
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University of California at Berkeley
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510/643-0106
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