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Check your BIOS settings! put your hard drive settings to Auto and then make sure the boot order is correct.
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On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 10:00, Jonathan Younker wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>There's something really strange going on when I mount the Mac hard-drive: </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>instead of booting off the main hda drive, the bios attempts to boot of the </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>3Com NIC. When I boot off the floppy to the main drive, dmesg gives me the </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>message that hdb (the Mac drive) was ignored by BIOS (C/H/S=0/0/0 from BIOS </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>ignored). fdisk won't work then, either.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>At first, I thought it was trying to boot off the NIC because of some </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>misconfigured jumper settings on the drives, but I've tried virtually every </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>combination to no avail.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>The drive is a Quantum Fireball CX, and I'm using RH 7.3 on a Dell OptiPlex </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>GX1.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Has anyone encountered this before?</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Thanks,</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Jonathan.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>At 11:02 PM 7/10/2002 -0400, you wrote:</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>You should be able to dmesg or check your /var/log/messages to see how the </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>drive gets detected, then "cfdisk /dev/hd* or /dev/sd* whatever and that </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>will tell you the partition format of the drive.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 15:57, Jonathan Younker wrote:</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>I believe it's OS9, so I'll give the HFS mount a shot.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>All this to recover email...</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>Thanks for the help,</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>Jonathan.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>At 03:39 PM 7/10/2002 -0400, you wrote:</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >Mac OS 9 or X. Don't know if it matters. Mac os 9 and below are HFS file</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >systems. Should be able to put the drive in and mount it with a mount -t</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >hfs command. You'll need the device and partition number. /dev/sdb1,</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >/dev/hdb1 or whatever depending if it's scsi or IDE.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> ></FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >Something like:</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >mount -t hfs /dev/hdb2 /mnt/macdrive</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> ></FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >I assume os X is still HFS??? Anybody? Most macs have OS 9 installed</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >also with 10 so for OS 9 to read files I would assume its still HFS.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> ></FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> ></FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> ></FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 15:22, Jonathan Younker wrote:</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > > Has anyone had success mounting a Mac hard-drive under Linux? If so, </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> what</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > > type did you use?</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > > We've had a Mac G4 fail, and I want to know if it's possible to extract</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > the</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > > data from it using my Linux box. I haven't found any how-to's </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> relating to</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > > this subject.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > > Thanks,</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > > Jonathan.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > ></FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > ></FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > > This message has been scanned for viruses and</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > > and is believed to be clean.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >-------------------------------------------</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >Justin Bennett</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >Red Hat (Linux) Certified Engineer</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >Dynabrade Inc.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>Jonathan T. Younker</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>Electronic Services Librarian</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>Gibson Library, Brock University</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>(905) 688-5550 x4899</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>jyounker@brocku.ca</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Jonathan T. Younker</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Electronic Services Librarian</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Gibson Library, Brock University</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>(905) 688-5550 x4899</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>jyounker@brocku.ca</FONT></FONT></I>
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