In <200102132021.PAA01381@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
nbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu wrote:

> I have a couple of disks from an OpenBSD SS1 machine that lost its nvram
> and has become problematic.  I want to recover the information from the
> disks into NetBSD, but it does not recognize the disk labels?  What is
> different between the two?  Is it a Sun hardware thing, or a difference
> in the actual labels?

OpenBSD/sparc has different LABELOFFSET (64) and MAXPARTITIONS (16)
from NetBSD/sparc. They are not compatible. It could be mounted
on the other ports which had 64byte LABELOFFSET if it had only
8 partitions.
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp