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Re: Mounting Solaris 2.5 scsi disk on Linux 2.0

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From: James Youngman
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 00:00
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>>>>> "lassauge" == lassauge  <lassauge@sagem.fr> writes:

  lassauge> Hi there, I just wanted to mount on a Linux box (i586 /
  lassauge> linux 2.0.30) a scci disk (4GB) formatted on Solaris 2.5
  lassauge> (used as a boot disk for a Force Computer CPU5V VME board
  lassauge> = Sun SS 5).  I added "everything" in the Linux kernel
  lassauge> (UFS fs support and so on) but never succeeded in mounting
  lassauge> this disk. Even fdisk sees "garbage".... Help !!!

To read opposite-endian UFS filesystems you need to enable support for
Sun disk labels and use the UFS code from 2.1.x (you can use it as a
module with 2.0.x quite happily).
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From: James Youngman <JYoungman@vggas.com>
Subject: Re: Mounting Solaris 2.5 scsi disk on Linux 2.0
Date: 1997/10/22
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