2008/1/2, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Don't mix endianess on filesystems. It won't work.
Thanks. Surely saved some time for me. On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:34:52PM +0100, Seth Brundle wrote: > > Hello list & happy new year, > > > > due to some problems with a x86 machine I got here I have the problem of > > accessing data on one of its hard discs. The machine runned OpenBSD 4.2, > and > > its first (system) HD died. I have a 500GByte SATA drive connected to it > on > > a dedicated controller, which contains a lot of my data. > > > > As I need to access it ASAP, I thought of connecting it to my G4 Power > Mac, > > after I built in the Promise SATA HBA that was used in the PC (this > device > > will be operatable under OpenBSD as there's a driver for it; however, > the > > machine wouldn't be able to boot off of it, but that's not needed > anyways). > > > > Now my question: The x86 machine is little endian, the PowerPC is big > > endian. Is there a chance to have access to my data or will it all be > > 'upside down' (or, even worse, would I destroy the disklabel)? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Seth
