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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 8 May 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > Is there some way to use linux (maybe with some
> > precompiled kernel) to transfer Mac files from an
> > external scsi hard drive to a DOS-formatted zip disk?
>
> I don't know if it will help or not, but there is a module
> (hfs.o) to let the kernel read the Mac filesystem.  It is
> available for BL3 (in fs directory).  Perhaps it will let
> you see the Mac files?
>
> Cheers,
> Steven

I don't think there are any files, Mac or otherwise, to be seen on this 
drive.  Using David's scsi 2.4.31 kernel (scsi built-in) I booted and it 
could find the partition on my working scsi drive (ext2 linux) as sda1.
We rebooted with this drive instead and dmesg said:
sda:  I/O error:  dev 08:00, sector 0
unable to read partition table

(We did not have that problem with my good drive).

fdisk /dev/sda
FATAL ERROR:  Cannot read disk drive

fdisk -z /dev/sda
732MB free space (no partitions)

fdisk /dev/sda
FATAL ERROR: Bad signature on partition table


(Why did the message change from Cannot read to Bad signature?)

My drives all said bad signature until I made partitions on them.

So this drive either never got partitioned, or the partition table went 
bad, I think.

He has some of the same files on 2 zip disks, but he can only find #2.

Unless he can find his old music files, he will be very interested in 
switching over to linux with something like Lilypond or Noteedit for 
music composition.  Both use Lilypond format, used by mutopia.org for its 
free sheet music composed by volunteers.  I will probably need GTK and 
other large libraries but they should fit on top of 50MB BL3 in a 540MB 
drive.

Mac, Windows, and DOS (Adaptec BIOS) were all unable to even find this 
drive, let alone look for a partition table.

Sindi