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just a question for mac os 9.2. i need to try to get the data off of the hdd. is there a 3rd party app for linux to access the mac data off of the hdd and back it up?
i attached the drive to a usb external device and windows does not see it. it will say it is an unallocated disk in disk management.
i tried to use knoppix 5.1.1 but i cant mount the hdd.
Try some rescue cd such as systemrescue, anything that has the driver required to access the file system in question (HFS I guess).
i tried the program you mentioned but i dont think it will work for me the ppc version is for a power pc only. the apple imac has a bad dvd drive,and the x86 version will not see the drive at all. do you have anything else that could work?
The Linux kernel has support for accessing HFS & HFS+. Load the appropriate modules, have the right packages installed and mount. In my Debian I installed "hfsplus, hfsutils, hfsutils-tcltk", not sure if the third one is necessary. Then issue command: modprobe hfsplus. Make a directory to mount it to in Linux: mkdir /macdrive. Then find which device it is with command: fdisk -l, if for example your USB Mac drive is /dev/sdb and you want to mount the first partition /dev/sdb1, mount it with command: mount -t hfsplus /dev/sdb1 /macdrive
Your partition should now be accessible in /macdrive directory.
The HFS+ file system was introduced in Mac OS 8.1, I am assuming that is the file system you are using, if not, use 'hfs' instead of 'hfsplus'.
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