Re: [gentoo-user] Apple Partition Scheme - any way to mount it?

[Martin Ullrich]

As far as I know, MacOS should be able to read/write ext2/3
filesystems even on dirves with "PC-style" partition tables. And there
are some ext2/3 drivers for Windows too. If you just do all the
formatting with Linux or Windows (you'll need some special software
for creating ext2/3 partitions with Windows - PowerQuest
PartitionMagic has always worked for my purposes; so it would be
better to use Linux).
I don't know whether it'll work or not, but I think it's worth a try ;-).

Martin


2005/10/18, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>:
> Hi,
>    I'm playing around with some external 1394 drives. The purpose is
> to find the best setup to allow a given drive to be mounted on my
> Gentoo boxes, my last Win XP system and my new Mac Mini. Obviously not
> all file system types are going to work everywhere. So far it seems
> that only FAT32 is supported by all 3, but I cannot use FAT32, AFAICT,
> due to path length name restrictions for instance.
>
>    Anyway, I've emerged the HFS+ tools package on Gentoo, but it turns
> out that Apple's GUI will only put HFS+ on a 1394 drive that uses the
> 'Apple Partition Scheme', and when I plug this drive into my Gentoo
> box it tells me that it doesn't recognize the partition format.
>
>    In my kernel config I have included both:
>
>  <*> Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)
>  <*> Apple Extended HFS file system support
>
> thinking this would get me there, but when I plug the drive in all I
> see is this in dmesg:
>
> scsi5 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices
> ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
> ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
> ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command
> scsi5 : destination target 0, lun 0
>         command: cdb[0]=0x12: 12 00 00 00 24 00
>   Vendor: IC35L080  Model: AVVA07-0          Rev:
>   Type:   Direct-Access-RBC                  ANSI SCSI revision: 04
> SCSI device sdc: 160836480 512-byte hdwr sectors (82348 MB)
> sdc: asking for cache data failed
> sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
> SCSI device sdc: 160836480 512-byte hdwr sectors (82348 MB)
> sdc: asking for cache data failed
> sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
>  sdc: unknown partition table
> Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> mark@lightning ~ $
>
> and when I try to run fdisk I get this:
>
> lightning ~ # fdisk  -l /dev/sdc
>
> Disk /dev/sdc: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table
> lightning ~ #
>
>    Does anyone know the trick to make Apple's HFS+ mount on Gentoo? Do
> I have to format the drive on Gentoo and then use it on the Mac? Can
> Apple's Partition Scheme be used at all under Linux?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
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