Mounting a Mac drive

[Jonathan Younker]

I've changed the BIOS settings, and still no dice.  The last time I tried 
booting the machine, the Mac drive in question sounded like a pinball 
machine, so I suspect that it's a write-off.  It was worth a shot, though.
Thanks for your help,
Jonathan.

At 10:23 AM 7/11/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>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:
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>instead of booting off the main hda drive, the bios attempts to boot of the
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>3Com NIC.  When I boot off the floppy to the main drive, dmesg gives me the
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>message that hdb (the Mac drive) was ignored by BIOS (C/H/S=0/0/0 from BIOS
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>ignored).  fdisk won't work then, either.
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>At first, I thought it was trying to boot off the NIC because of some
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>misconfigured jumper settings on the drives, but I've tried virtually every
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>combination to no avail.
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>The drive is a Quantum Fireball CX, and I'm using RH 7.3 on a Dell OptiPlex
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>GX1.
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>Has anyone encountered this before?
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>Thanks,
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>Jonathan.
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>At 11:02 PM 7/10/2002 -0400, you wrote:
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> >You should be able to dmesg or check your /var/log/messages to see how the
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> >drive gets detected, then "cfdisk /dev/hd* or /dev/sd* whatever and that
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> >will tell you the partition format of  the drive.
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> >On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 15:57, Jonathan Younker wrote:
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> >I believe it's OS9, so I'll give the HFS mount a shot.
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> >All this to recover email...
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> >Thanks for the help,
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> >Jonathan.
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> >At 03:39 PM 7/10/2002 -0400, you wrote:
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> > >Mac OS 9 or X. Don't know if it matters. Mac os 9 and below are HFS file
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> > >systems. Should be able to put the drive in and mount it with a mount -t
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> > >hfs command. You'll need the device and partition number. /dev/sdb1,
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> > >/dev/hdb1 or whatever depending if it's scsi or IDE.
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> > >Something like:
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> > >mount -t hfs /dev/hdb2 /mnt/macdrive
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> > >I assume os X is still HFS??? Anybody? Most macs have OS 9 installed
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> > >also with 10 so for OS 9 to read files I would assume its still HFS.
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> > >On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 15:22, Jonathan Younker wrote:
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> > > > Has anyone had success mounting a Mac hard-drive under Linux?  If so,
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> > what
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> > > > type did you use?
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> > > > We've had a Mac G4 fail, and I want to know if it's possible to extract
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> > > the
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> > > > data from it using my Linux box.  I haven't found any how-to's
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> > > > this subject.
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> > > > Thanks,
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> > > > Jonathan.
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> >Jonathan T. Younker
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>Jonathan T. Younker
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>Electronic Services Librarian
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>Gibson Library, Brock University
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>St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1
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>(905) 688-5550 x4899
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>jyounker at brocku.ca
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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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