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I've searched the web, but can't come up with a way to access my 300GB
Maxtor OneTouch drive my wife uses to backup her iMac from my Sony
Vaio laptop running Gentoo. I have no firewire port, so I'm trying to
use USB.

From what I gather, the fs type is HFS+, which I have compiled as a
kernel module, but I can't get the darn thing to mount! I'd like to
write to it eventually, but I can't even read from it.

Help?

Jim

Jim Crossley enlightened us with:
> From what I gather, the fs type is HFS+, which I have compiled as a
> kernel module

Have you actually loaded it?

> but I can't get the darn thing to mount!

Error messages?

Sybren
--
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

Hi

Sybren Stuvel <sybrenUSE@YOURthirdtower.imagination.com> writes:

>> From what I gather, the fs type is HFS+, which I have compiled as a
>> kernel module
>
> Have you actually loaded it?

Yes...

# lsmod | grep hfs
hfsplus 39840 0

>> but I can't get the darn thing to mount!
>
> Error messages?

The usual, unfortunately...

# mount -t hfsplus /dev/sdb /mnt/tmp
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb,
or too many mounted file systems
# mount -t hfsplus /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0 /mnt/tmp
mount: /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0 is not a block device

Maybe I'm not using the correct device name? I get this in
/var/log/messages when I plug in the USB connector...

Jun 28 18:36:04 vaio hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.0-2, assigned address 2
Jun 28 18:36:04 vaio scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jun 28 18:36:04 vaio Vendor: Maxtor Model: OneTouch Rev: 0200
Jun 28 18:36:04 vaio Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jun 28 18:36:04 vaio Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jun 28 18:36:04 vaio sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
Jun 28 18:36:04 vaio Current 00:00: sns = 70 2
Jun 28 18:36:04 vaio ASC=3a ASCQ= 0
Jun 28 18:36:04 vaio Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
Jun 28 18:36:04 vaio SCSI device sdb: 585938944 512-byte hdwr sectors (300001 MB)
Jun 28 18:36:04 vaio /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: unknown partition table
Jun 28 18:36:04 vaio WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
Jun 28 18:36:04 vaio USB Mass Storage device found at 2

I've also tried hfsplusutils, but I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing
(obviously)...

# hpmount /dev/sdb
*** Warning: You are about to open '/dev/sdb' for writing ***
*** Do you really want to do that ? (y/n) ***
y
hpmount: /dev/sdb: Neither Wrapper nor native HFS+ volume header found (Unknown error 4294967295)

Any help is greatly appreciated,

> Sybren

Jim

Jim Crossley enlightened us with:
> # mount -t hfsplus /dev/sdb /mnt/tmp

You are trying to mount the entire block device. Are you sure you
don't want to mount a single partition?

> Jun 28 18:36:04 vaio /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: unknown
> partition table

Maybe you need to look at this. Do you have support for the partition
table type that is used?

Sybren
--
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

Hi

Sybren Stuvel <sybrenUSE@YOURthirdtower.imagination.com> writes:

>> # mount -t hfsplus /dev/sdb /mnt/tmp
>
> You are trying to mount the entire block device. Are you sure you
> don't want to mount a single partition?

I thought that was odd, too. I thought I would have /dev/sdb1 or
something, but all I have is /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. Do I have to
manually create the partition device somehow?

>> Jun 28 18:36:04 vaio /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: unknown
>> partition table
>
> Maybe you need to look at this. Do you have support for the partition
> table type that is used?

Not sure. How would I find out?

> Sybren

Jim

Jim Crossley <jim@crossleys.org> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Sybren Stuvel <sybrenUSE@YOURthirdtower.imagination.com> writes:
>
>> Jim Crossley <jim@crossleys.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Jun 28 18:36:04 vaio /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: unknown
>>> partition table
>>
>> Maybe you need to look at this. Do you have support for the partition
>> table type that is used?
>
> Not sure. How would I find out?

cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
-> File systems -> Partition Types[*] Advanced partition selection
[...][*] Macintosh partition map support

OR (only to find out)

cat /proc/config | grep CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION

This is for a 2.4.x Kernel with "config in /proc" feature.

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Die E-Mail-Adresse ist *genau* *so* korrekt: dlk-nospam@deelkar.ath.cx

"Dirk-Lueder Kreie" <dlk-nospam@deelkar.ath.cx> writes:

>> Sybren Stuvel <sybrenUSE@YOURthirdtower.imagination.com> writes:
>>
>>> Jim Crossley <jim@crossleys.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jun 28 18:36:04 vaio /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: unknown
>>>> partition table
>>>
>>> Maybe you need to look at this. Do you have support for the partition
>>> table type that is used?
>>
>> Not sure. How would I find out?
>
> cd /usr/src/linux
> make menuconfig
> -> File systems -> Partition Types
>[*] Advanced partition selection
> [...]
>[*] Macintosh partition map support

Thanks. I didn't have this selected. But I think I'm screwed
anyway. Something I did must've cleared out the partition table,
because now I can't even read the drive with the Mac. :-(

The OSX Disk Utility couldn't repair -- it didn't show any partitions
at all. Does anyone know of a way I can recover the data on there?

Jim