Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 19:42:52 -0700 From: xSAPPYx <xsappyx@gmail.com> To: Noah Pratt <npratt@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting UFS CD-ROMs Message-ID: <AANLkTimdxwtMF7GsQDb0=PWYuUtsA_xahGMmHS5M7-zv@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikc=q1F4HnDib4XBqEyW0fW7h%2B-x=MC1fOj7RVp@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTikukY9ZYDov1KA7o1ik%2BFDT-cKC4Wv46nbSoJT2@mail.gmail.com> <i3anju$lgf$1@dough.gmane.org> <AANLkTikc=q1F4HnDib4XBqEyW0fW7h%2B-x=MC1fOj7RVp@mail.gmail.com>
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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 <npratt@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> 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" >
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