My Sparc 10 is not working and I would like to get some data file from it. Can I use Sparc HD as an external HD to a linux PC? If I do, dies linux PC will recognize this HD and not ask to format it?
As long as you have the right kind of controller (SCSI? IDE?) and cables to plug it in, go ahead and try. No PC that I know of just formats a hard drive because you connected it... you have to tell it to do so.
Linux should recognise the Sun label on the disk and allow you to mount and read them as long as your kernel has the required modules and utilities to support mounting UFS filesystems (I'm guessing that's what you used on your SPARC).
You might have "fun" with the data having been stored in big endian and little endian format (Sparc vs. Intel), so if once you have mounted the disk the file names and or file contents look scrambled then that could be why.
Linux should recognise the Sun label on the disk and allow you to mount and read them as long as your kernel has the required modules and utilities to support mounting UFS filesystems (I'm guessing that's what you used on your SPARC).
I strongly doubt about it.
Linux expects hard disks to have a MBR and is only able to mount low endian UFS in slices layed out in a Solaris primary partition.
SPARC (as already stated) use big endian UFS and don't use the extra layer of primary partitions.
Strange to ressurrect such an old thread that the OP seems to have disappeared from anyway...
Linux does not expect an MBR. In fact, by default, when you initialise disks for use by Veritas Volume Manager, it uses Sun disk labels (which surprised me), e.g.
Code:
Disk /dev/sdb8 (Sun disk label): 30 heads, 128 sectors, 55508 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3840 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb8p3 u 0 55508 106575360 5 Whole disk
/dev/sdb8p8 u 0 55508 106575360 f Unknown
The endianness of the data on the filesystem is only an issue if you are trying to read it programmatically (i.e. reading multiple byte values), and can be fixed programmatically if desired... however ASCII will still be in the correct order.
Hi Gurus,
We are migrating Oracle from Solaris to RHEL 7 and looking for Solaris equivalent commands for Linux.
we are using lot of korn shell scripts built on Solaris so, i am looking for equivalent commands which are using in Solaris..
Could you please help me here by proving any info ... (4 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
We are migrating Oracle from Solaris to RHEL 7 and looking for Solaris equivalent commands for Linux.
we are using lot of korn shell scripts built on Solaris so, i am looking for equivalent commands which are using in Solaris..
Could you please help me here by proving any info... (1 Reply)
Hi Oracle Linux users,
You can probably guess from the title what the question is:
Does anyone know if Oracle Linux (the Unbreakable variety I think that is) comes in a
SPARC release or, if not, will there be one some time soon ?
Many thanks,
P;):D:b: (2 Replies)
Hi,
I've been searching for answers for two days and didn't find any definite answers on building RAID1 on SPARC. The main problem was with SILO (Sparc Improved boot LOader): can it boot from RAID partition or not. So I just tried it and it works.
I've done this on Debian, but it should be... (0 Replies)
Hi, I am wanting to get some input on an issue that I have encountered with Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy. When installing Linux & booting Linux it freezes almost all the time, I don't know if it is the shell or whatever, but after SILO, it goes wild of freezes, then rebooting all the time. (The display... (0 Replies)
Hi there,
I am trying to mount a SAN volume (which is mapped to solaris sparc) partitioned with ufs filesystem onto a linux (intel processor 64bit) server.
*I have re-compiled the linux kernel t support ufs fstype with ro mount support.
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Just that the Subject says.
I am looking for a C compiler for Linux x86 that will allow me to compile a C source code file and the resulting binary will be able to run on a Sparc running Solaris.
Thanks. (2 Replies)
10-30-2008
