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by **Tom Eva** » Wed, 16 Oct 1996 04:00:00

I recently picked up a few Sun 3/60s with external 137M SCSI hard
disks. The drives have SunOS 4.1.1 on them (BSD 4.2 format???). The
SCSI drive is recognized by my FreeBSD system at boot time, however I am
not able to mount it. Is there any way to access a 4.2 fs through FreeBSD?

by **Ollivier Robe** » Thu, 17 Oct 1996 04:00:00

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> I recently picked up a few Sun 3/60s with external 137M SCSI hard
> disks. The drives have SunOS 4.1.1 on them (BSD 4.2 format???). The
> SCSI drive is recognized by my FreeBSD system at boot time, however I am
> not able to mount it. Is there any way to access a 4.2 fs through FreeBSD?

Sun 3 == Big endian machines
PC == Little endian machines.

UFS is not byte order independant. NetBSD/sun3 is probably able to read it.
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by **J Wuns** » Mon, 21 Oct 1996 04:00:00

> Sun 3 == Big endian machines
> PC == Little endian machines.

> UFS is not byte order independant. NetBSD/sun3 is probably able to read it.

You might perhaps have luck in trying to dump them under SunOS to a
tape, and read the dump tapes on FreeBSD. I've once noticed that
restore(8) tries to detect and correct byte order problems.

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