From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 20 02:59:40 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id CAA06456 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 02:59:40 -0800 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA06446 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 02:59:33 -0800 Received: from corto.inria.fr (root@corto.inria.fr [128.93.11.2]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA27922 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 11:59:16 +0100 Received: from simplet.inria.fr (simplet.inria.fr [128.93.11.48]) by corto.inria.fr (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id LAA07104 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 11:59:13 +0100 From: Herve Soulard Received: (soulard@localhost) by simplet.inria.fr (8.6.8/8.6.6) id LAA04741; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 11:59:13 +0100 Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 11:59:13 +0100 Message-Id: <199502201059.LAA04741@simplet.inria.fr> Subject: Re: Disklabel To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >At home I'm running FreeBSD-2.0. At work I'm working on DEC-Alphas >with OSF1. I would like to use a hard disk to carry files between >the two systems. I've got this to work. I have made two DOS partitions on the disk. The first one is dummy and the second one is for FreeBSD. The disklabel of OSF1 is written in the first sector of the disk. Due to the dummy partition, disklabels of OSF1 and FreeBSD don't use the same sector: first potential problem is solved. The second problem is with the DOS partitions table made by fdisk. Hopefully this table is written at the end of the first sector. Thus the OSF1 disklabel and the partition table don't overwrite. Last problem is with byte ordering so that structures read from disk are well interpreted by both the x86 and the Alpha. Both processors are LITTLE ENDIAN, fine. Maybe there are other problems that I've not seen.... Herve Soulard.