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

On Mon, 8 May 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > 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
>
> -snip-
>
> > So this drive either never got partitioned, or the partition table went
> > bad, I think.
>
> Or this drive might be partitioned into Mac partitions, which (I
> think) are incompatible with PC partition tables. If so, you need to
> load a module to access the drive's partitions. None of the 2.4.31
> kernels at your site (assuming that the configs are the same as what
> you built) have support for Mac partitions, so you will need to use a
> different kernel, perhaps from Slackware.
>
> David

bare.i kernel has scsi support built-in and also config mac partition y - 
would that be usable without the extra module to view mac partitions?