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Re: i386 and sparc64 disks



Quoting Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. (bsd@hawkmountain.net):
> On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 14:18, scott wrote:

> Byte ordering on Sun and x86 are different.  I would say this is why
> it doesn't see your data.
> 
> You'll need to mount the disk another big-ending system to get at
> your data.

And ANY Sun should see it ok.  A SPARCstation 1 or 2, or a netra
or ANYTHING.

You can even read it on a Solaris box, I think.  Perhaps.
I know I can read Solaris disks from OpenBSD, but doing an fsck
means hitting superblock 32, annoyingly.  (netra is off, can't check).