[TriLUG] OT:MAC Data Recovery
Brian Daniels
bitmage at bellsouth.net
Tue Sep 16 09:29:28 EDT 2003
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:05:28PM -0400, Neil Roeth wrote:
> On Sep 15, Brian Daniels (bitmage at bellsouth.net) wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
Things have improved. I was just able to try a HFS cd on my RH9 system and
it worked. Access seemed a bit slow, but I was able to read the files.
--Brian
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