Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 06:05:34 -0800 (PST) From: J D <starkruzr1701@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: More on my A1000 Message-ID: <20041215140534.35821.qmail@web41503.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041215103829.GD778@grazer-2.bsd.krakow.pl>
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--- Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote: > The problem is that Alpha disks don't have a PC-style partition > table. Ah. I was under the impression that identical operating systems would do their disk structure in identical ways regardless of architecture, since to my mind storage is something of a processor architecture-independent function. Upon further reflection, however, this DOES sound a little unlikely :) > The data is still there and should be recoverable. Rather than > using sysinstall, try installing the disks onto a functional FreeBSD > system and try "disklabel daN". You should be able to mount those > partitions. What precisely do you mean by this? I think that I've already done this (created a "functional BSD system") in a way, because when I installed the OS onto my PII, sysinstall remained largely agnostic of anything going on with the SCSI bus (or at least seemed to, I didn't have the option of writing partitions on the SCSI drives). I will try the disklabel trick when I get home, though. Thanks! > The Alpha is theoretically bytesexual but, AFAIK, only little-endian > Alpha systems exist. Your A1000 is definitely little-endian - which > matches your P-II. The only issue you might bump into is that longs > are 32-bits on i386 and 64-bits on Alpha, though all the on-disk > structures are fixed sizes so this won't affect mounting the disk. Ah, excellent. Thanks. > You might like to offer this in -alpha and give an indication of > where > you are (since an A1000 is not compact). I think I will, actually :) Thanks again. Will let you know if disklabel works. JD __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page – Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com
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