[nycbug-talk] sparc64 disk question

[pete wright]

On 5/6/05, Michael Shalayeff <mickey at lucifier.net> wrote:
> Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from pete wright:
> [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > hey all,
> >      So I have an IDE disk that has a UFS partition on it that was
> > created on a sparc64/netbsd box.  I know that this is probably not
> > possible, but I'd like to try to mount it on an x86/freebsd 5.x box.
> > I can see the disk iin my dmesg and in /dev, but none of the slices
> > are showing up.  Is it wishfull thinking that I may be able to get
> > this disk recognized on a 32bit box.  Me thinks not for the obvious
> > reasons...still worth a shot eh?
> 
> disklabel is of a different format (sun disklabel)
> ufs is of different endianess
> 

cool, figured somthing along those lines but now I know the specific
reasons :)  thanks!


-pete



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