Swapping drives between Ultra 5 and 10 is it possible?

I currently am faced with a problem. I have 2 machines running Solaris 7. One is an ultra 10 and the other is an ultra 5. The Ultra 10 is currently running off of an external scsi drive. The Ultra 5 is currently running off of an internal IDE drive. The utra 10 is used as a basic workstation. The ultra 5 is used as a software simulator. I am tasked with having to switch these two machines. I have tried just swapping the hard drives. However this does not work. Is there a reason why? Is there a fix? I thought they were the same architechure so I was assuming you could just swap the drives. If you have any info please let me know. I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks,
Jason

Ultra 5 and Ultra 10 is exactly the same machine but in different boxes. So they uses exactly the same motherboard.
Of course there are a couple of different motherboards with different revisions and there are also multiple CPUs available for the Ultra 5 / Ultra 10 (the speed on a Ultra 5/10 CPU can range from 200-something to 440, if i'm not mistaken).
Hence, to clarify; all Ultra 5 and Ultra 10 have an IDE controller.
If your Ultra 10 is booting of a SCSI device, it must be connected to a SCSI card, if you can move this SCSI card to your Ultra 5 and put it in the same PCI slot, chances are that you will be able to boot from it. Similarly the Ultra 10 should be able to boot from the Ultra 5s harddrive. Unless they have very different version of the motherboard.
You will probably have to change the default boot device on both boxes though.
If your systems for some odd reason, which i can't think of at the moment, would refuse to boot of their new hosts, you could always boot the system from a jumpstart image or cdrom, mount the / partition under /mnt and run
devfsadm -r /mnt
this should rebuild all devicepaths and friends to match your new host.
Then again, remember to change the boot-device parameter in your OBP, if you are lucky you should be able to just swap the parameters between the U5 and the U10.
//Magnus

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