Mounting a Mac drive

[Jonathan Younker]

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
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>Electronic Services Librarian
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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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