[nycbug-talk] sparc64 disk question

Michael Shalayeff mickey
Fri May 6 17:09:40 EDT 2005


Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from pete wright:
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> 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

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    paranoic mickey       (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)




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