Don't mix endianess on filesystems. It won't work.
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:34:52PM +0100, Seth Brundle wrote:
> Hello list & happy new year,
>
> due to some problems with a x86 machine I got here I have the problem of
> accessing data on one of its hard discs. The machine runned OpenBSD 4.2, and
> its first (system) HD died. I have a 500GByte SATA drive connected to it on
> a dedicated controller, which contains a lot of my data.
>
> As I need to access it ASAP, I thought of connecting it to my G4 Power Mac,
> after I built in the Promise SATA HBA that was used in the PC (this device
> will be operatable under OpenBSD as there's a driver for it; however, the
> machine wouldn't be able to boot off of it, but that's not needed anyways).
>
> Now my question: The x86 machine is little endian, the PowerPC is big
> endian. Is there a chance to have access to my data or will it all be
> 'upside down' (or, even worse, would I destroy the disklabel)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Seth
