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grakker
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 Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2002 6:44 pm Post subject: Mac formatted hard drive |
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OK, I have an old hd from a powerpc, formatted under MacOS 8 or something around there. I would like to mount the disk and copy a couple files off of it. Can I do this with Linux? I enabled all the Apple partition options I could find in the kernel with no luck. Anyone ever tried this? Would it be better to find an old Mac somewhere and just put the drive in there? I couldn't really find anything with google.
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alec
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| Don't know why you wouldn't be able to, but I'm not a Mac user. You might want to try the PPC forum for better results - it's a ways down the page at forums.gentoo.org. |
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phypor
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| Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2002 7:31 pm Post subject: Re: Mac formatted hard drive |
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| grakker wrote: | OK, I have an old hd from a powerpc, formatted under MacOS 8 or something around there. I would like to mount the disk and copy a couple files off of it. Can I do this with Linux? I enabled all the Apple partition options I could find in the kernel with no luck. Anyone ever tried this? Would it be better to find an old Mac somewhere and just put the drive in there? I couldn't really find anything with google.
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If it's formatted in the older HFS, yes... you can do pretty much full read/write access.
If it's formated in the newer HFS+, sorta... you can kludge read-only access.
Part 1, seeing the harddrive with linux:
enable HFS in the filesystems and
macintosh partition types in your kernel config
and as you reboot with your new kernel,
install the harddrive physically, making sure you have the master/slave settings right
to verfiy that yourself to this point,
bash# cat /proc/partitions
based on the following hd? chart you should see your mac hd and its parts
hda - primary ide, master
hdb - primary ide, slave
hdc - secondary ide, master
hdd - secondary ide, slave
ie, i put a mac harddrive as master on my secondary ide bus, itll show up in /proc/paritions as hdc
Part 2, Accessing the data:
(ill use hdc in my example)
bash# mkdir /mnt/mac
bash# mount -t hfs /dev/hdc /mnt/mac
if you don't see Where_Have_All_My_Files_Gone on 'ls' then you have an HFS and can access the data as you do normally
if you do see it, then you have an HFS+ formated partition....
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phypor
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| Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2002 7:44 pm Post subject: Re: Mac formatted hard drive (pt2) |
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afaik, there are two workable options for dealing with HFS+ drives,
HFSPlus (v.1.0.4)
http://ftp.penguinppc.org/users/hasi/
(There is an ebuild for it but its PPC only (?)... the src at the link should compile fine)
Linux Kernel HFS+ fs driver
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-hfsplus
I have used successfully the HFSPlus utils to access, read, and transfer over files from a HFS+ partition, however, it is a pain cause it's a wrapper (the commands are hfsls, hfscp, hfsmount, etc) and shell expansions are very blonde.
I have not (yet) used the kernel mods, but may soon, as I have an old hfs+ drive with data I'd like to get at (and I don't have time to do it with hfsplus tools)
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