[Info-vax] Ods2 reader utility mount

[ChrisQ]

Hi,

Am trying to recover some files from a couple of cdc 94171-330 scsi
drives which were originally fitted to a Microvax II around 1990-1992.
It was the main lab machine here at the time, before deserting to Sun3 a
while later.

I no longer have enough Qbus parts locally to build a working Microvax,
so downloaded the ODS2 utility to catalog and read the drives. Tried it
first on XP, but the xp disk man. utility won't let you assign a drive
letter (which ods2 needs to mount the drive) until the drive is
initialised, which is not really what I had in mind :-). Ok, move drive
to Solaris 10 sparc box, but there's not much info with the utility, no
examples of how to mount drive under unix. Have  tried various runes to
get the drive mounted without success. ie: mount c6t1d0 /mnt, mount
/dev/dsk/c6t0d0 /mnt, mount c6t1d0 etc etc.

Drives are 20+ years old, but CDC made em good in those days and spin up
fine, (After replacing one shorted tant cap on one and lubing the ground
spring on the spindles) They are seen and recognised by windoze and
sol10 format utility, so it looks like it will all fly, just can't get
the drives mounted. Any ideas re correct syntax ?...

Regards,

Chris