As far as I know, MacOS should be able to read/write ext2/3 filesystems even on dirves with "PC-style" partition tables. And there are some ext2/3 drivers for Windows too. If you just do all the formatting with Linux or Windows (you'll need some special software for creating ext2/3 partitions with Windows - PowerQuest PartitionMagic has always worked for my purposes; so it would be better to use Linux). I don't know whether it'll work or not, but I think it's worth a try ;-).
Martin 2005/10/18, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > > thinking this would get me there, but when I plug the drive in all I > see is this in dmesg: > > scsi5 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices > ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device > ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048] > ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command > scsi5 : destination target 0, lun 0 > command: cdb[0]=0x12: 12 00 00 00 24 00 > Vendor: IC35L080 Model: AVVA07-0 Rev: > Type: Direct-Access-RBC ANSI SCSI revision: 04 > 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ > > and when I try to run fdisk I get this: > > lightning ~ # fdisk -l /dev/sdc > > Disk /dev/sdc: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table > lightning ~ # > > Does anyone know the trick to make Apple's HFS+ mount on Gentoo? Do > I have to format the drive on Gentoo and then use it on the Mac? Can > Apple's Partition Scheme be used at all under Linux? > > Thanks, > Mark > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
