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From: Seth Brundle <cdanza335@...>
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Subject: Able to access data on HD on platforms with different endianness?
Date: Wednesday, January 2, 2008 - 7:34 am

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
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Able to access data on HD on platforms with different endian..., Seth Brundle, (Wed Jan 2, 7:34 am)
Re: Able to access data on HD on platforms with different en..., Marco Peereboom, (Wed Jan 2, 10:56 am)
Re: Able to access data on HD on platforms with different en..., Seth Brundle, (Wed Jan 2, 11:31 am)