On 07/04/11 20:41, Martin Foster wrote: > I am currently migrating a MacPPC based OpenBSD 4.7 installation to a > i386 4.9 install. So far everything has worked well, except when I > have attempted to access information stored on a portable drive. > > Attempt to mount displays the following: > > oberon /mnt: mount /dev/sd0a /mnt > mount_ffs: /dev/sd0a on /mnt: Invalid argument > ... > I suspect the problem lies in the fact that the partition was originally > formatted under MacPPC (and works fine there) and I am now attempting to > use it under a i386 installation. Is there a way to fix it? Thanks!
Two ways: 1) extract data on OpenBSD/macppc machine, transfer via network to PC or platform independent storage, then newfs drive. 2) Decide data is not worth the effort, newfs drive. Later remember there was something really useful on that drive and regret having gone this route. Different platforms have different disk layouts and formatting, i386 and macppc are NOT file-system compatible, unfortunately. Nick.
