From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Sep 25 02:03:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA00652 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 02:03:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles360.castles.com [208.214.167.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA00637 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 02:03:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA01810; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 02:09:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809250909.CAA01810@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: schofiel@xs4all.nl cc: Free BSD Hardware list Subject: Re: reading Sun-formatted diskettes In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:06:53 +0200." <360B4F1D.6DAB@xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 02:09:12 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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...? You totally fail to understand. Device drivers don't have anything to do with byte ordering. You will note that I specifically said "filesystems". > 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. Solaris x86 uses the Sparc word ordering in on-disk filesystem data structures so that you can exchange disk media with Sparc systems. In addition to this, the Solaris "UFS" fileystem is not entirely compatible with the FreeBSD filesystem of the same name. See NetBSD/ Sparc, which can read SunOS/Solaris filesystems. Thus, you cannot mount a Solaris/X86 filesystem because: - The values in the on-disk data structures are formatted in a non-native fashion, and FreeBSD does not support this. - The on-disk data structures are not what the FreeBSD UFS/FFS is expecting. > Did you get out of the wrong side of the bed this morning, Mike ;^) I haven't gotten *into* bed this morning. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message