From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 5 03:11:44 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C08001065674 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2010 03:11:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xsappyx@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 703FB8FC18 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2010 03:11:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyg4 with SMTP id 4so2888934gyg.13 for ; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:11:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=HVYrS8Kumf+9ZkIG/yaiQlTgrLngX3OxtzS68Jg3a7s=; b=HdobHvCSl0CAin8tkEaC0y8NSo7/KXdp/xDUmQVcCmY+WxgOWeFMRbJGII/SAhEgja hVdYpuGzWqC4xjgUD/O2bdv6gaz3p9f7vuXGemq6XrXfFoR99odHum3xa3TIDaNmpG5Z 6hFC+7i7JPYLmo1ZL5WC4NGgKqD3OzAfVHmCs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=gK39Uk+12R426+WfwFOAmjrZnCm1oKh8RGfboj0F0RlW5IMFbWl3uxCYSha1sgbefg kfYz6Y3aYS25o7w5nrOoGSAvMUlZLvhy9PgQYbHDSzmX5bSNSp3QcUeClx45T7A7a9o4 SnFN9SRlIePmAllE14nq/e2RNsxTkJrGj9paQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.14.76 with SMTP id f12mr11361138iba.63.1280976172208; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:42:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.59.73 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Aug 2010 19:42:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 19:42:52 -0700 Message-ID: From: xSAPPYx To: Noah Pratt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting UFS CD-ROMs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:11:44 -0000 You could try the conv=3Dswab option to dd dd if=3D/dev/acd0 of=3D5853-5864.iso conv=3Dswab On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 18:04, Noah Pratt wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Michael Powell w= rote: >> Noah Pratt wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have a whole bunch of UFS CD-ROMs, but I'm unable to mount them on >>> my FreeBSD 8 system. >>> I thought it would be possible. From the FAQ: >>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html >>> >>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 UFS CD-ROMs can be mounted directly on FreeBSD. Mounting = disk >>> partitions from Digital UNIX and other systems that support UFS may be >>> more complex, depending on the details of the disk partitioning for >>> the operating system in question. >>> >>> >>> I tried the direct route: >>> >>> 6930p# file -s /dev/acd0t01 >>> /dev/acd0: Unix Fast File system [v1] (big-endian), last mounted on >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 = =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ^^^^^= ^^^^^ >> [snip] >>> >>> 6930p# uname -a >>> FreeBSD 6930p.domain.com 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #1: Mon May 17 >>> 01:26:14 PDT 2010 >>> root@6930p.domain.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC =C2=A0amd64 >>> >>> >>> Am I missing something that ought to be obvious? [probable] >>> Is it no longer possible to mount UFS filesystems? [unlikely ;-) ] >>> Is there something specific about *this* UFS filesystem that prevents >>> it from working? >>> >> >> I suspect maybe the disk was written using Solaris on SPARC, which is bi= g- >> endian. Most PC architectures are little-endian. >> >> -Mike > > > > Yes, the CDs were created in Solaris on SPARC. (I think it was a Sparc 10= ...) > And yes, my FreeBSD system is an Intel Core2Duo. > > In Linux, copying the disc and mounting the disc image via loopback > worked great: > =C2=A0 ubuntu# cat /dev/cdrom > cd-image > =C2=A0 ubuntu# mount -t ufs -o ro,loop cd-image /mnt > > It looks like NetBSD has a kernel build option FFS_EI, to enable > fsck_ffs -B to convert the byte order. > (I don't have a NetBSD system to test though.) > > I even found a Windows program called R-Studio ( http://www.r-tt.com/ > ) that was able to recover data from these discs. > > Can the filesystem's endianness be converted in FreeBSD? > > > > Thanks a lot! > > -Noah > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >