I hope I'll have a price for off-topic questions but you guys seem to know everything about anything so I'll give it a try. A while ago I asked a question about some hds problems. Now I blame it on my mb's chipset overheating. Satruday, the two hds of my girlfriend's macintosh "died". First, three (out of four) partitions of one of them disappeared, then the five partitions of the other. A year and a half ago, she had the same problem with another disk in the same box. Since she has two disk, she gave up on backuping datas on CDs. So she has lost an huge amount of work. I tried to help her: patched my kernel for hfs+ support, emerged hfsutils and hfsplusutils, compiled apple partitions support and then didn't know what to do: disks answer to hdparm, fdisk doesn't see anything, diskdrake (from my mandrake partition) sees a lot of partitions (13 If i remember), hfs sees 5 partitions. Still I can't mount anything. In /dev, I've got hdc, but no hdc1, hdc2, ... cat-ting /dev/hdc prints garbage for a while (normal) then gets stuck. Question 1: can it be the mac that kills the disks? Question 2: Is there a hope that I could save some partitions. any help welcome, thanks in advance. -- mathieu perrenoud
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