[weblacky]

Oh yeah, super old linux distros had XFS v2 at least, the problem I've found is that many distros have PURGED their online archives of old distros. I still have some old Redhat CDs from like 1998 so if you found the right distro that supported it out of the box, great! I'll remember that.

But I found that most of the time XFS support wasn't installed by default and wasn't on the original media and then you go to apt-get or yum it and....file not found.

Yes, XFS v1 was used until (or was it after) Irix 6.5.5.

Also same problem with like SSH, after you got the files, unless you're saving them onto another drive that's formatted with something you can read, you cannot even SSH or SCP the files over because there have been too many changes between the old version and modern version so, connection refused.

I've got both the Adaptec PCMCIA & CardBus adapters (both versions) and all that...software is the biggest problem and I still have zero idea why they removed XFS v1 & v2..after all Linux is about data recovery and digital archeology now...why remove them? Once I have a fully-working SGI up and can use FTP, I can get the files.