Re: FireWire external drive and SCSI /dev/sdxx limit
Hi,
If you still have Mac OS X on this machine, or any other OS X machine
for that matter, grab the ext2 kernel extension for OS X and try to
access your firewire drive that way. The page is:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/
cheers
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Stefano Barale wrote:
> Hello list,
> I just bought a "brand new used" iBook2 ;). Unfortunately its wonderful 30GB
> IBM HDD is slowly dying (I/O errors, can't recover journal from time to
> time) so I had to remove it and put the original 10GB back on the machine.
> The problem is I forgot to migrate some data from the 30GB to the 10GB. "No
> problem" - I tought - "I'm going to use an external firewire case, mount the
> disk as /dev/sda and backup the missing data".
> That's the point where my problem comes in: apparently there's a limit on
> the number of scsi devices (from 1 to 15, to be precise) so I end up being
> unable to mount /dev/sda16 (was /dev/hda16, mounted as /tmp, doesn't matter)
> and /dev/sda17 (my old /dev/hda17, mounted as /home and _that matters_).
> Do you have any idea for a workaround? Thanks in advance.
> Stefano
>
> P.S.: mac-fdisk "sees" /dev/sda16 and /dev/sda17 perfectly and I have no
> problems mounting /dev/hda12, /dev/hda14 and /dev/hda15 (/dev/hda13 was
> swap)
>
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