Firewire and YDL 3.0

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

You are trying to mount an hfsplus filesystem as hfs under linux. 4GB is too
big to reformat as hfs, and to mount as hfsplus you need the kernel from YDL
3.0.1, with which you can give the commands:

mkdir /mnt/macos
mount -rt hfsplus /dev/sdb /mnt/macos

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> From: Derick Centeno <aguila@macol.net>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.yellowdog.general
> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:08:47 -0400
> Subject: Firewire and YDL 3.0
> 
> Has anyone out there run into the situation as I describe it here?
> I resurrected an internal old 4G IDE HD (the original HD in the Beige
> G3 Minitower) and install it into a external housing turning it into
> a Firewire drive.  Mac OS 9.2 reads the thing fine, even Mac OS 8.6
> reads the Firewire drive without difficulty.
> 
> However, pdisk reports the Firewire drive as existing on /dev/sdb;
> isn't that reserved for scsi drives?  Doesn't Red Hat Linux know yet
> how to distinguish Firewire drives?
> 
> As a test I decided to put some files onto the Firewire drive which I
> would immediately recognize when viewed from Linux.  When I finally
> mounted the drive which pdisk told me was /dev/sdb5, a string of
> unknown files appeared along with the following string, - without the
> quotes -"Where_are_my _files?"
> 
> I thought that was absolutely cute.  It didn't tell me anything, but
> I thought it was cute.  If the phrase does have a meaning, by all
> means drop a line and let me know; I think Linux was trying to make
> sense of something which made no sense to it.
> 
> This information is useful in helping me, and probably others keep in
> mind just how much a work-in-progress Linux really is.  It will be
> interesting to discover what others believe is going on.  Your turn
> folks...
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