Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:56:27 +0200 From: Martijn Pronk <martijn@sillywalks.org> To: Nick Jones <nick@freebsd.cx> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dedicated disks from a sparc64/-CURRENT system into an Alpha Message-ID: <2BC7AC1C-E2DE-11D7-8087-00039346207E@sillywalks.org> In-Reply-To: <20030909122109.GA7145@freebsd.cx>
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Nick Jones heeft op dinsdag, 9 sep 2003 om 14:21 (Europe/Amsterdam) het volgende geschreven: > I'm trying to install two IDE disks that were created in dedicated > mode on a > Sun Ultra5 running -CURRENT (from about a month ago) into a Compaq > Professional Workstation XPS1000 running 5.1-RELEASE. I'm not really a big Sparc64 or Alpha expert, but I think you're running into the troubles of different byte-ordering issues. AFAIK Sparc64 is big-endian and Alpha is little-endian, so exchanging disks between these architectures won't work without some extra programming effort... HTH, Martijn
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