Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:06:02 -0400 From: Ean Kingston <ean@hedron.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD to examine/work on a Solaris disk Message-ID: <200506221106.02803.ean@hedron.org> In-Reply-To: <44hdfqjwop.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <s2b7fed3.042@gw.parkview.com> <44hdfqjwop.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On June 22, 2005 10:25 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Wesley Groleau" <Wesley.Groleau@parkview.com> writes: > > I have an i386 FreeBSD 5.4 I've stuck a disk from a Sun Ultra 10 on the > > ATA0 slave. > > > > If possible, I'd like to mount it to see what's what. > > > > (and tweak some /etc files so I can get into the Sun). > > > > Is there an fstype to mount the disk? Or even a way to see the > > partition table? Nope. FreeBSD does not support the SUN filesystem. SUN does not use a PC type partition table (called slices in FreeBSD terminology) on Sparc systems (which the Ultra 10 is). And, as Lowell mentioned, there is the endian issue. > > All the ones I tried wouldn't work. FreeBSD does recognize there is a > > disk there. Good the disk works. > > Of course, I can't be sure it's Solaris---previous owner might have > > been into Linux/BSD/whatever. If you want to learn a lot about filesystems, you could spend the next year writing a program to access the raw disk device and start picking apart the contents of the disk one block/byte at a time. > To start with, there's probably a problem with endianness (on the > metadata structures). Even if the Sun ran FreeBSD, that would still > apply. I'd estimate that this is about the level of a semester > project for an undergraduate programmer... -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network administration please feel free to contact me directly.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200506221106.02803.ean>