On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 04:32:41PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: | I want to take a Macintosh IDE hard drive (System 8.6), connect it to my | x86 Linux system and read the data off of it. (In a pinch, I could use a | Windows system too, but that looks harder). | | Do I have a prayer? :}
Is the hardware compatible? I have no idea since I have never been inside a Mac. If it is an IDE driver you should have no trouble. | I've used mtools to read Mac floppies, but as far as I know these are no | use for reading hard drive data. Linux (and mount) understand the Mac filesystem (IIRC it is called "hfs") so reading/writing the disk, once the hardware fits, should be no trouble. HTH, -D