I tried `dd conv=swab`, and it's not that easy. I gather it's only the metadata within the filesystem that's affected, so swapping the whole thing leaves you with garbage. Afterwards, `file` saw it as "data", where before it at least knew it was a filesystem.
On 8/4/10, xSAPPYx <[email protected]> wrote: > You could try the conv=swab option to dd > > dd if=/dev/acd0 of=5853-5864.iso conv=swab > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 18:04, Noah Pratt <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Michael Powell <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Noah Pratt wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have a whole bunch of UFS CD-ROMs, but I'm unable to mount them on >>>> my FreeBSD 8 system. >>>> I thought it would be possible. From the FAQ: >>>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html >>>> >>>> UFS CD-ROMs can be mounted directly on FreeBSD. Mounting disk >>>> partitions from Digital UNIX and other systems that support UFS may be >>>> more complex, depending on the details of the disk partitioning for >>>> the operating system in question. >>>> >>>> >>>> I tried the direct route: >>>> >>>> 6930p# file -s /dev/acd0t01 >>>> /dev/acd0: Unix Fast File system [v1] (big-endian), last mounted on >>> ^^^^^^^^^^ >>> [snip] >>>> >>>> 6930p# uname -a >>>> FreeBSD 6930p.domain.com 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #1: Mon May 17 >>>> 01:26:14 PDT 2010 >>>> [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >>>> >>>> >>>> Am I missing something that ought to be obvious? [probable] >>>> Is it no longer possible to mount UFS filesystems? [unlikely ;-) ] >>>> Is there something specific about *this* UFS filesystem that prevents >>>> it from working? >>>> >>> >>> I suspect maybe the disk was written using Solaris on SPARC, which is >>> big- >>> endian. Most PC architectures are little-endian. >>> >>> -Mike >> >> >> >> Yes, the CDs were created in Solaris on SPARC. (I think it was a Sparc >> 10...) >> And yes, my FreeBSD system is an Intel Core2Duo. >> >> In Linux, copying the disc and mounting the disc image via loopback >> worked great: >> ubuntu# cat /dev/cdrom > cd-image >> ubuntu# mount -t ufs -o ro,loop cd-image /mnt >> >> It looks like NetBSD has a kernel build option FFS_EI, to enable >> fsck_ffs -B to convert the byte order. >> (I don't have a NetBSD system to test though.) >> >> I even found a Windows program called R-Studio ( http://www.r-tt.com/ >> ) that was able to recover data from these discs. >> >> Can the filesystem's endianness be converted in FreeBSD? >> >> >> >> Thanks a lot! >> >> -Noah >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "[email protected]" >> > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
