Mounting a Mac drive

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Check your BIOS settings! put your hard drive settings to Auto and then
make sure the boot order is correct.
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 10:00, Jonathan Younker wrote:

    There's something really strange going on when I mount the Mac hard-drive: 
    instead of booting off the main hda drive, the bios attempts to boot of the 
    3Com NIC.  When I boot off the floppy to the main drive, dmesg gives me the 
    message that hdb (the Mac drive) was ignored by BIOS (C/H/S=0/0/0 from BIOS 
    ignored).  fdisk won't work then, either.
    At first, I thought it was trying to boot off the NIC because of some 
    misconfigured jumper settings on the drives, but I've tried virtually every 
    combination to no avail.
    The drive is a Quantum Fireball CX, and I'm using RH 7.3 on a Dell OptiPlex 
    GX1.
    Has anyone encountered this before?
    Thanks,
    Jonathan.
    
    At 11:02 PM 7/10/2002 -0400, you wrote:
    >You should be able to dmesg or check your /var/log/messages to see how the 
    >drive gets detected, then "cfdisk /dev/hd* or /dev/sd* whatever and that 
    >will tell you the partition format of  the drive.
    >On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 15:57, Jonathan Younker wrote:
    >I believe it's OS9, so I'll give the HFS mount a shot.
    >
    >All this to recover email...
    >
    >Thanks for the help,
    >
    >Jonathan.
    >
    >
    >At 03:39 PM 7/10/2002 -0400, you wrote:
    >
    > >Mac OS 9 or X. Don't know if it matters. Mac os 9 and below are HFS file
    >
    > >systems. Should be able to put the drive in and mount it with a mount -t
    >
    > >hfs command. You'll need the device and partition number. /dev/sdb1,
    >
    > >/dev/hdb1 or whatever depending if it's scsi or IDE.
    >
    > >
    >
    > >Something like:
    >
    > >mount -t hfs /dev/hdb2 /mnt/macdrive
    >
    > >
    >
    > >I assume os X is still HFS??? Anybody? Most macs have OS 9 installed
    >
    > >also with 10 so for OS 9 to read files I would assume its still HFS.
    >
    > >
    >
    > >
    >
    > >
    >
    > >On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 15:22, Jonathan Younker wrote:
    >
    > > > Has anyone had success mounting a Mac hard-drive under Linux?  If so, 
    > what
    >
    > > > type did you use?
    >
    > > > We've had a Mac G4 fail, and I want to know if it's possible to extract
    >
    > > the
    >
    > > > data from it using my Linux box.  I haven't found any how-to's 
    > relating to
    >
    > > > this subject.
    >
    > > > Thanks,
    >
    > > > Jonathan.
    >
    > > >
    >
    > > >
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    >Jonathan T. Younker
    >
    >Electronic Services Librarian
    >
    >Gibson Library, Brock University
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    Jonathan T. Younker
    Electronic Services Librarian
    Gibson Library, Brock University
    St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1
    (905) 688-5550 x4899
    jyounker at brocku.ca
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