Hi all. Just subscribed. I used Paul's hfs modules a few years ago to read Mac CDROMs. Now I'd like to be able to read Mac Zip drives, but am unable to do so.
Is it possible to read Mac-formatted zip drives?
Thanks, Dave
Dave Wreski wrote:
Hi all. Just subscribed. I used Paul's hfs modules a few years ago to read Mac CDROMs. Now I'd like to be able to read Mac Zip drives, but am unable to do so.
Is it possible to read Mac-formatted zip drives?
Thanks, Dave
What device are you trying to mount? You need to mount the 'whole disk' partition, e.g., /dev/sdc, instead of /dev/sdc4 (for a dos formatted zip disk).
Hope this helps.
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Is it possible to read Mac-formatted zip drives?
What device are you trying to mount? You need to mount the 'whole disk' partition, e.g., /dev/sdc, instead of /dev/sdc4 (for a dos formatted zip disk).
Thanks very much everyone. This was the problem. It's an ATAPI drive, so in my case it was /dev/hdd, but really the same.
Thanks, Dave
Thanks very much everyone. This was the problem. It's an ATAPI drive, so in my case it was /dev/hdd, but really the same.
I actually forgot to ask another question. One of the people that responded to me said that the partition table won't be recognized, but yet you still should be able to mount it successfully. I was just wondering why this is?
Perhaps this is solved in the development kernels?
Thanks again. Dave
In article XFMail.980825011144.dave@nic.com you write:
I actually forgot to ask another question. One of the people that responded to me said that the partition table won't be recognized, but yet you still should be able to mount it successfully. I was just wondering why this is?
This is because the normal (non-Mac) Linux kernels don't know about Mac partition tables, but the hfs driver does.
BTW does anyone know of any patch that will make the kernel not un-recognize a scsi device if I put a Mac disk in there? If a Mac disk is in a Syquest drive, say, when the kernel boots, the kernel thinks that the device does not exist because it can't recognize the partition table, which is really annoying, esp. given the fact that it won't do this if there's simply no disk in the drive.
Perhaps this is solved in the development kernels?
IIRC it is.
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 03:23:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Dave Wreski dave@nic.com
Hi all. Just subscribed. I used Paul's hfs modules a few years ago to rea d Mac CDROMs. Now I'd like to be able to read Mac Zip drives, but am unable to d o so.
Is it possible to read Mac-formatted zip drives?
G'day
I do so quite often, by just mounting the zip drive with hfs as the file system! i.e. mount -t hfs /dev/whatever /mnt/zip
Do you have a parallel of scsi zip drive?? Perhaps it is something to do with that??
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