Mounting a Mac drive

[Justin Bennett]

SOunds like your mac might have died because the Drive failed.. 

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
> St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1
> (905) 688-5550 x4899
> jyounker at brocku.ca
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