AZ Nomad wrote:

>>so far so good
>
>>sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x70000
>>end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
>>Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
> ..
>>sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x70000
>>end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
>>Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
>> unable to read partition table
> ....
>
> what do you get from 'fdisk -l /dev/sda'

nothing

but
# pmount /dev/sda
mount: unknown filesystem type 'jfs'
????? don't think, that's plausible