On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:05:14 +0000 James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a Lacie Firewire pocket drive. I'd rather like to be able to use > it on both my Debian (Sid) box and my iBook (Mac OsX). > > I have no problems making it accessible to either machine but neither > seems to be able to read the other's partition table. Is there any way > to be able to read a Mac partition table on the Linux box or to write a > partition table on the Linux box that will be readable on the Mac? > > The fact that a colleague has a USB keyring solid-state disk that is > readable on Mac, Linux and Windows without any problems suggests that it > should be possible > > TIA > James I know it's generally bad form to reply to one's own posts, but for the benefit of anyone searching the archives for a solution to a similar problem I'll describe the resolution. If you format the disk on the Mac you're pretty much on a non-starter, although the Debian kernel config has "CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION=y" it won't recognize the partition table (does than only handle OS9 and below disks?). Format the disk on the Linux PC and create a single partition at number 4 (remember ZIP disks?). Create an Ext2 filesystem on the partition, and add a world-writable directory to it. Then provided you have the ext2 package for the Mac (locatable via macupdate.com) you have disk that can be used on both boxes. The one thing I still don't understand is how the USB keyring whcih shoed up at partition 1 was seen by the Mac. James -- James Tappin, O__ "I forget the punishment for using [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- \/` Microsoft --- Something lingering http://www.tappin.me.uk/ with data loss in it I fancy" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
