Subject: Re: Disklabel Compatibility, i386/amiga
To: None <kent@goathill.org>
From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
List: port-amiga
Date: 01/10/2001 21:48:58
In <979104292.539938@fezzik.endicor.com>
kent@tiamat.goathill.org 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)
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp