Re: [PLUG] hard drive troubles

["Michael Lazin" <mmlazin@hotmail.com>]

Thanks for the advice.  I am still unable to access the hard drive.  I have 
a deal that I would like to propose.  If anyone on the list will burn the 
data from it onto a CD I will give them the hard drive.  It is a 4 gig IDE 
drive that was formatted as ext2 with mandrake linux.

Mike :)






> From: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
> Reply-To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] hard drive troubles
> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 13:19:28 -0500
>
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 01:09:50AM +0000, Michael Lazin wrote:
> > I have a linux formatted hard drive that I pulled out of a pc running
> > mandrake and put into a mac running os x, os 9, and yellow dog.  I no
> > longer have the pc and need to access the data on the ext2 formatted 
> hard
> > drive.  For some reason I am unable to mount it under yellow dog and 
> have
> > not found a way to access it from my mac partitions.  Any ideas on what 
> I
> > should do?
>
> Noah and Sean's suggestions are valid.
>
> But then you're going to have to figure out how to make Yellow Dog
> read a partition written in little endian format. Presumably, this
> is an option to ext*'s mount(8). (Naive implementation is really
> simple and gets the job done just fine if what you want is simply
> access, not maximum speed; just use bswap(3) a lot.)
>
> It *might* be something that you need to rebuild your kernel to get
> endianity-independent FS support. (It is under NetBSD, but these
> components are more modularized under Linux, so I'd expect that,
> if it's not already enabled, changing modules.conf and rebooting
> would be enough. Note that rmmod and insmod on your file system
> support module will probably not work. :^>)
>
> --
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net
> << attach3 >>


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