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.
for the record: I am using iPod formatted for Mac (as it came from Apple) and it is recognized and works. I compiled kernel with both mac partitions (CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION=y) and mac filesystems (CONFIG_HFS_FS=m) and of course firewire support (number of CONFIG_IEEE1394* options)
iPod works as harddrive (looks like scsi hd), not sure whether other HDs would work...
BTW I assume it would work under mac but I haven't tried it:-)
erik
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