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From: Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sun 4.1.1 filesystem on FreeBSD 2.1
Date: 16 Oct 1996 13:55:24 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
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In article <5415q6$fmm@nntp.interaccess.com>,
Tom Evans <tevans@interaccess.com> wrote:
> 	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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Ollivier ROBERT   -=- Eurocontrol EEC/TS -=-   Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr
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