Subject: Re: Disklabel Compatibility, i386/amiga
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.kleinbus.org>
List: port-amiga
Date: 01/10/2001 22:03:42
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 09:48:58PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> 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)

Hm.

I suggest to use the full disk.... However, creating an AdosFS
that is on the full disk, instead of using RDB, might be difficult..

	-is