[TriLUG] OT:MAC Data Recovery

[Neil Roeth]

On Sep 15, Brian Daniels (bitmage at bellsouth.net) wrote:
 > >   Good Morning,
 > > 
 > >   I know this is very off topic so I will apologize now.
 > > 
 > >   Recently I got married. My photographer used all digital to photograph my
 > > wedding.
 > >   Somewhere along the line he has deleted my files. He runs a MAC with OS X
 > > v 10.2
 > > 
 > >   He is giving me his HD drive and I am going to try to recover the data.
 > > 
 > >   My initial thought was to send off the drive to a data recovery specialist
 > > since I know nothing about MAC.
 > >   However, If I recall correctly, I think if I throw this in my Linux
 > > machine it will see the drive?
 > > 
 > 
 > Under RedHat 8 I was unable to mount Mac HFS disks.  When I dug into the 
 > problem, it appeared that the HFS driver had not been maintained and was no 
 > longer compatible with the kernel.  I haven't tried it under RH9 to see if 
 > the situation has got any better.

Try a 2.2 kernel.  About a year ago I was able to read a Mac floppy using a
2.2 kernel with HFS enabled on a Debian box, after failing with a 2.4 kernel.

-- 
Neil Roeth