From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 15 14:05:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48E2D16A4CE for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:05:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web41503.mail.yahoo.com (web41503.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1638543D4C for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:05:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from starkruzr1701@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 35823 invoked by uid 60001); 15 Dec 2004 14:05:34 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=sYp8RyYRsMTgx5WCvrEP0jjT+e1NBFcB+POaS6h08GYwHT+tE63C5zBzdCbCdNa6Ju7YAekd+27q7AxoqdNqVcOiexMQtNKHFZ2MPUwFtJbq2RzbtMCL2ISjkCq3zMsXhZBx9WMFgnT13F+wOmPfHr9WYFF7CKhkl20i9oVnc44= ; Message-ID: <20041215140534.35821.qmail@web41503.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [69.22.204.254] by web41503.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 06:05:34 PST Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 06:05:34 -0800 (PST) From: J D To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20041215103829.GD778@grazer-2.bsd.krakow.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: More on my A1000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:05:35 -0000 --- Peter Jeremy 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