On June 22, 2005 10:25 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Wesley Groleau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"