Re: Disklabel Compatibility, i386/amiga

To: kent%goathill.org@localhost
Subject: Re: Disklabel Compatibility, i386/amiga
From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 21:48:58 +0900 (JST)

In <979104292.539938%fezzik.endicor.com@localhost>
kent%tiamat.goathill.org@localhost wrote:

> The sparc/NetBSD can't read the drive partitions either, so it
> doesn't appear to be an endianness problem.

sparc has different LABELOFFSET (defined in machine/disklabel.h)
so it cannot read disklabel written by other ports even if
they are big endian. (port-sparc/6325)
---
Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost

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