Jazz or Zip drive (share between sparc and x86)

2007-12-25 11:51:00

Hi group,

Thank's to:

Bryan Blackburn <blb@rmi.net>

Shriman Gurung <SG@datcon.co.uk>

The basic answer is NO !

It's possible to hook up a SCSI JAZZ or Zip drive to a sparc, create a

UFS on it, and use it on the SPARC. It's also possible to do this on a

x86 Solaris. The problem is related to the 'endianess' difference

between SPARC and X86 processor. A UFS created on one architecture won't

be seen by the other architecture.

A different way a doing this, recommended by a lot of you guys, is to

use a FAT filesystem and use the pcfs filesystem type on the Unix side

or the mtools utility.

I really don't like this idea because I lose any kind of security,

ownership, etc...

For more info on Zip and JAZZ under Solaris either Sparc or Intel:

Simon.

My original question:

> Hi group,

> My question is simple, but I'm really not sure if I will get the answer

> I want.

> I would like to buy a Jazz drive (2Gb) to be able to use it as my home

> dir at home on my Pentium running Solaris 2.6 (real soon, it will be

> Solaris 7). Will I be able to take it with me at the office and plug it

> in my sparc and use it ?

> Is this doable or will I be messed up by the fact that a harddisk under

> x86 must be fdisked before it is use ?

> Then same question apply for a Zip drive (100Mb).

> Thank's.

> Simon.

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