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

[Baby Peanut]

options 	FFS_EI		# FFS Endian Independent support

oh but that's NetBSD not FreeBSD.  Does FreeBSD have this feature?

--- Nick Jones <nick at freebsd.cx> wrote:
> 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
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