Hi,
I'm playing around with some external 1394 drives. The purpose is
to find the best setup to allow a given drive to be mounted on my
Gentoo boxes, my last Win XP system and my new Mac Mini. Obviously not
all file system types are going to work everywhere. So far it seems
that only FAT32 is supported by all 3, but I cannot use FAT32, AFAICT,
due to path length name restrictions for instance.
Anyway, I've emerged the HFS+ tools package on Gentoo, but it turns
out that Apple's GUI will only put HFS+ on a 1394 drive that uses the
'Apple Partition Scheme', and when I plug this drive into my Gentoo
box it tells me that it doesn't recognize the partition format.
In my kernel config I have included both:
<*> Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)
<*> Apple Extended HFS file system support
thinking this would get me there, but when I plug the drive in all I
see is this in dmesg:
scsi5 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices
ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command
scsi5 : destination target 0, lun 0
command: cdb[0]=0x12: 12 00 00 00 24 00
Vendor: IC35L080 Model: AVVA07-0 Rev:
Type: Direct-Access-RBC ANSI SCSI revision: 04
SCSI device sdc: 160836480 512-byte hdwr sectors (82348 MB)
sdc: asking for cache data failed
sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdc: 160836480 512-byte hdwr sectors (82348 MB)
sdc: asking for cache data failed
sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
sdc: unknown partition table
Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
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and when I try to run fdisk I get this:
lightning ~ # fdisk -l /dev/sdc
Disk /dev/sdc: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table
lightning ~ #
Does anyone know the trick to make Apple's HFS+ mount on Gentoo? Do
I have to format the drive on Gentoo and then use it on the Mac? Can
Apple's Partition Scheme be used at all under Linux?
Thanks,
Mark
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