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From: roberto@keltia.Freenix.FR (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SUN disk on FreeBSD?
Date: 13 Oct 1995 12:52:47 GMT
Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants
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In article <TAROH.95Oct13154759@kani.cc.kanagawa-u.ac.jp>,
Taroh Sasaki 101499 <taroh@kani.cc.kanagawa-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> 
> 	My quick question is: can the SUN-formatted/newfsed SCSI disk
> 	be connected to FreeBSD machines?  And how (mount paramaters,
> 	etc.) ?

If you want to use  the file-system on the  disk, you can't. UFS in FreeBSD
is not  endianess-aware  so you  can  read file-systems made  on big endian
machines (like Suns). 

[ Cc: to Taroh ]
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