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Re: Reading a mac disk



On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 04:32:41PM -0400, 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? :}

Is the hardware compatible?  I have no idea since I have never been
inside a Mac.  If it is an IDE driver you should have no trouble.

| I've used mtools to read Mac floppies, but as far as I know these are no
| use for reading hard drive data.

Linux (and mount) understand the Mac filesystem (IIRC it is called
"hfs") so reading/writing the disk, once the hardware fits, should be
no trouble.

HTH,
-D



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