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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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