From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Sep 25 01:07:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA21936 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 01:07:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp1.xs4all.nl (smtp1.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA21920 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 01:07:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from schofiel@xs4all.nl) Received: from xs2.xs4all.nl (root@xs2.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.43]) by smtp1.xs4all.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24840 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:06:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from excelsior (enterprise.xs4all.nl [194.109.14.215]) by xs2.xs4all.nl (8.8.8/8.8.6) with SMTP id KAA06053 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:06:57 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <360B4F1D.6DAB@xs4all.nl> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:06:53 +0200 From: Rob Schofield Reply-To: schofiel@xs4all.nl Organization: Knights of the Round Table Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Free BSD Hardware list Subject: Re: reading Sun-formatted diskettes References: <199809250614.XAA00472@word.smith.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Smith wrote: > > find anything in the manpages about this. I know you can use the option > > to `newfs' to create 4.3BSD formats. > > Solaris uses a different word ordering; you can't mount Solaris > filesystems under FreeBSD. Duh - so how come I can read OS-9 formatted floppies on FBSD? I would have thought byte ordering on the disk to be of little relevance so long as the correct device driver with an understanding of the layout of the disk is loaded...? Anyway, SPARC Solaris (which I guess you mean, Mike) wouldn't run on an Intel arch processor! It's obvious he's trying a dual boot setup on one machine, so it must be Solaris x86 => no byte ordering problem, merely a format problem. Did you get out of the wrong side of the bed this morning, Mike ;^) Rob -- The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Scheduling: The first ninety percent of the job takes ninety percent of the allotted time, the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message