Darren J Moffat wrote:
> Kyle McDonald wrote:
>> 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
>
> sun4, sun4c, sun4d, sun4m are not supported in Nevada, as are 
> UltraSPARC  I processors less than 170Mhz.
>
So basically I'm looking for an higher end Ultra 2 or Ultra 5 or newer. 
Ok. Thanks!

  -Kyle

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