Subject: Re: Accessing HFS partition (from /i386)
To: Joel CARNAT <joel@carnat.net>
From: Bill Stouder-Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 12/13/2007 19:12:49
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:55:16AM +0000, David Laight wrote:

Sorry for the delay.

> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:01:29PM +0100, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> > Hello,
> >=20
> > I have an HFS partition on an USB disk.
> > If if plug it on a Mac Mini, running 4.0_RC3/macppc, I can get the disk
> > label :
> > # /dev/rsd1c:
> > type: SCSI
> > ...
> > On a 4.99.36/i386 box, I plugged the same disk but I just can't get the
> > disklabel, nor can I mount the partition:
>=20
> Isn't the ppc big-endian?
> I don't think there is support for byte-swapping disklabels anywhere.

Shouldn't really matter, as we want to read the APM labeling. Which is=20
explicitly big-endian. :-)

Take care,

Bill

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