Re: linux && ultrix

Aaron J. Grier (agrier@cse.ogi.edu)
Fri, 6 Nov 1998 18:59:46 -0800

On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 02:54:34PM +0200, Peter Svensson wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Victor Stanescu wrote:
>
> > is there any support for ultrix filesystem in linux? i have an old ide
> > disk from a dead dec station and i would like to read it from linux, if
> > possible.

I assume you mean a SCSI drive? :)

> I think they use a normal bsd ufs filesystem. Have a look at the
> CONFIG_UFS_FS, CONFIG_SMD_DISKLABEL, CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL kernel
> configuration options. There is the possibility of endianess problems, I
> have not tried it myself.

Although the MIPS in the DECStations could act either big- or little-
endian, I believe that Ultrix runs in little-endian mode... Another
possibility would be to install NetBSD on your DECStation, as I know
from experience it can read Ultrix disks. :)

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