On 12/18/05, Michael Juntunen <juntunen@yahoo.com> wrote:
Happy holidays,
I am trying to use an external hard drive that was formatted for(by) a Macintosh computer, however, it does not seem to be recognized by my Suse computer.
I am using 9.3. During the initial install I made sure that the two modules for the Mac hard drives were checked off for installation. The external drive hard drive is using firewire.
So what do I need to set so that I can read this hard drive?
Thank you.
I was doing some work with Mac harddrives a few months ago. I'm pretty sure I accomplished the same thing your trying to do. First look at the end of the dmesg output and verify that the firewire drive is being seen and what drive name it is given. "sda" is most likely, but if you have other usb/scsi/sata drives it will be different. Then figure out the partition table settings. "fdisk -l /dev/sda" should tell you how it is layed out and let you figure out which partition the Mac is using. Seems like it was partition 7 or something weird like that for the one I did. Then try to mount it and specify the format type. "mount -t hfs /dev/sda7 /mnt" I think. HTH Greg