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I'm curios to know if there is a Linux application which will format, read
and write Macintosh disks.  I understand that there is some kind of fundamental
incompatability between the two kinds of drives, but I desperately need to
transfer some files between the two and don't have easy access to a Macintosh.

Any help at all would be most appreciated...

james

Well, Linux is capable of only reading Mac high density disks via its
HFS filesystem, but can't write Mac disks.

Hope this helps.

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The program is on sunsite.unc.edu in
/pub/Linux/utils/disk-management/xhfs0_3.tgz.  It will read and write
HFS (144meg) disks.

jem.
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Several solutions:
- use xhfs to read data from Apple 1.44 MB HFS floppies (no write so far as
I  know)
- use mtools to exchange data on DOS formatted flopies, and
  Dosmounter, PCexchange or the Convert-Program included in the System 7
  distrubution.
- use tar, eg. "tar -cvf /def/fd0 " on LINUX and the SunTar - program
  on the MAC. (Nothig to do with SUN, its related to the authors name).
  Advantage: you can keep the long file names.

hope this helps
        Holger Dunkel

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: 19:14:48 luna: ~/SRC/hfs0_3$ ./hfs ls /dev/fd0H1440
: error: cannot open the device "a:" for use as a Macintosh volume

        hfs needs to be suid root.
(I think it needs write permission to the drive)

-Sam

hfs tells me:

19:14:48 luna: ~/SRC/hfs0_3$ ./hfs ls /dev/fd0H1440
error: cannot open the device "a:" for use as a Macintosh volume

Any clue?

The floppy drive blinks for a short time, so I am sure, that hfs finds
the device and of course I have inserted a Macintosh HD floppy.

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Karl Eichwalder         | 2:2437/209                  |     (*)/'(*)

: >I'm curios to know if there is a Linux application which will format, read
: >and write Macintosh disks.  I understand that there is some kind of fundamental
: >incompatability between the two kinds of drives, but I desperately need to
: >transfer some files between the two and don't have easy access to a Macintosh.

: Several solutions:
: - use xhfs to read data from Apple 1.44 MB HFS floppies (no write so far as
: I  know)
: - use mtools to exchange data on DOS formatted flopies, and
:   Dosmounter, PCexchange or the Convert-Program included in the System 7
:   distrubution.

What we need to do is at least read Syquest 88MB cartridges written by a
MAC.  xhfs only does floppies and, according to our Mac person, a PowerMac
will not write DOS format stuff on a Syquest (just on floppies).  Can
anyone confirm this or offer an alternative?  This just because real
important since we converted our office to a network of Linux systems and
just leased an imagesetter that will be connected to a Linux system.
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Phil Hughes, Publisher, Linux Journal (206) 527-3385

Quote:>: 19:14:48 luna: ~/SRC/hfs0_3$ ./hfs ls /dev/fd0H1440
>: error: cannot open the device "a:" for use as a Macintosh volume

>    hfs needs to be suid root.
>(I think it needs write permission to the drive)

I had been running it as root, but I had had the write protect set.  I
unset it, and now it appears to work.  Thanks.

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