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