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