[nycbug-talk] sparc64 disk question

[Trish Lynch]

On Fri, 6 May 2005, Michael Shalayeff 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
>
> cu
>
> -- 
>    paranoic mickey       (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)


Oh wow, I didn;t notice you here... up for beer one of these nights, or 
dinner at a pub?

-Trish

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