On 10/18/05, Heinz Sporn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 18.10.2005, 13:39 -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > > 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 > > I'm not sure but wouldn't you need CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION (File Systems / > Partition Types / Advanced Partition Selection) as well? >
Thanks VERY much Heinz! I would have NEVER found that! Before: <SNIP> > > 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 <SNIP> After: 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: [mac] sdc1 sdc2 sdc3 sdc4 sdc5 sdc6 sdc7 sdc8 sdc9 sdc10 sdc11 sdc12 sdc13 sdc14 sdc15 Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 lightning ~ # Now, unfortunately the partition table it's showing for the drive isn't correct. I created 5 partitions - it's showing 16! However, it's a big step forward. I'm going to try reformatting the drive on the mac and see if I can find some config that will mount. Thanks very much, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
