Dedicated disks from a sparc64/-CURRENT system into an Alpha

[Nick Jones]

Sorry to cross post this, but a suggestion mailed to me off-list regarding 
the problem below suggested that maybe it's endian related.  As I need to 
get these disks working in either an Alpha box or an x86 box and sparc64 
being the 'odd-one-out' (big endian), maybe someone on this list can shed 
some light.

> To: freebsd-alpha at freebsd.org
> 
> I'm trying to install two IDE disks that were created in dedicated mode on a
> Sun Ultra5 running -CURRENT (from about a month ago) into a Compaq
> Professional Workstation XPS1000 running 5.1-RELEASE.  The disks are attached 
> to a Promise ATA100 PCI IDE Controller, and both devices are detected on boot 
> as follows:
> 
> ad0: 58644MB <IC35L060AVER07-0> [119150/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100
> ad1: 114473MB <WDC WD1200JB-00DUA0> [232581/16/63] at ata2-slave UDMA100
> 
> The corresponding entries in fstab taken from the sparc64 installation are:
> 
> /dev/ad1f               /data1          ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/ad0d               /data2          ufs     rw              2       2
> 
> However, neither 'ad0d' or 'ad1f' exist on the Alpha, and bsdlabel simply 
> returns:
> 
> willow# bsdlabel /dev/ad0
> bsdlabel: /dev/ad0: no valid label found
> 
> If I put the drives back into the sparc64 box all is well, so it's not
> something that's happened physically to the drives during removal and
> reinstallation.
> 
> Any ideas?  This is actually the first time I've really messed with 5.x and
> devfs in particular so it might be something obvious I'm neglecting to do, but
> I can't see it.
> 
> TIA.

-- 

/Nick