2008/1/2, Marco Peereboom :

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> 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:

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> > 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