andrewk9 wrote:
> Assuming your disk has UFS partitions on it then no, you can't do that. UFS 
> was not designed to be movable between architectures. The main reason you 
> cannot do this is that the on-disk formats are incompatible " by default" due 
> to x86 processors being little-endian, and Solaris running SPARC CPUs in 
> big-endian mode.
>
>   
I knew it wouldn't be easy.

I just thought there might be a compatibility mode where the driver or 
fs did the endian translation.

Thanks for the info... I'm off to track down a SPARC machine.

Does NV support Sun4c? lol

  -Kyle

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