High, On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, William T Wilson wrote:
> I want to take a Macintosh IDE hard drive (System 8.6), connect it to my > x86 Linux system and read the data off of it. (In a pinch, I could use a > Windows system too, but that looks harder). > > Do I have a prayer? :} > Yes ;-). You have to compile a kernel which supports the mac partition table (CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION=y) and support for the hfs filesystem (CONFIG_HFS_FS=m). Then you should be able to mount the drive with: mount -t hfs /dev/sdb3 /mnt > I've used mtools to read Mac floppies, but as far as I know these are no > use for reading hard drive data. > If you are running Linux on a Mac, there is a package called 'htools'. Perhaps this also works on PC reading Mac disks. Greetz, Sebastiaan
