On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:49:31 -0600 Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 13:05, James Tappin 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 > > I must admit that I know very little about the inner workings of a Mac, > but from everything I've seen with regards to Debian I had been under > the impression that just about anything a Mac has Debian will in some > way support. What's odd is that you say that they are unable to read > each other's partition TABLE. By this I'm assuming you mean that doing > something like 'fdisk -l /dev/sda' (assuming sda is your firewire drive > of course) shows nothing? This leads me to believe that this isn't > really related to the partition table at all. Possibly a > misconfiguration with regards to firewire somewhere along the line. > > What are you doing in order to use the firewire drive under Linux? Do > you have all of the appropriate modules loaded with no error messages? > (ieee1394, ohci1394, and sbp2) > -- > Alex Malinovich > Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! > Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the > pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 > Initially I formatted the disk on the Mac and created a single Ext2 partitition on it. When I plugged it into the PC, hotplug detected the disk and loaded the relevant modules successfully. However when I ran fdisk to determine which partition was in use it complained that there wasn't a valid partition table on the disk: xena:~# fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 38154 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table The same thing when there is no disk present gives no output at all. If I format the disk on the PC the Mac sees a partition but fails to read it. (Endianness issue in the OsX Ext2 driver?). In each case the disk works correctly on the system on which it was formatted. 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]
