So what happens if I pull out a drive from my SPARC based solaris 8 system and plug it into a intel box...
Solaris-SPARC uses a different disk TOC than Solaris-x86. X86 disks use a disk label that is derived from the PC world, with Master Boot Records, fdisk, partitions and the like; within one of these partitions, Solaris-X86 writes out a Solaris-SPARC-like disk label that spells out the slice info that the rest of the Solaris tools use. On a Solaris-SPARC system, there is no fdisk-managed MBR, partition table and the like - only a disk label full of slice info. There may be (I haven't tried it) code in the Solaris disk driver that can deal with this difference, so I can't tell you what would happen if you actually tried it. -John _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
