RE: [WinMac] hfsutils/KDE error.

Subject: RE: [WinMac] hfsutils/KDE error.
From: Tom Roth (tomroth[at]wfubmc.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 22 2002 - 09:00:11 EDT

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You need something like MacOpener from DataViz to be able to read those Mac disks on a PC.

http://www.dataviz.com/products/macopener/index.html

There are some other utilties that do the same thing. This is just the first one that comes to mind.

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> ----------
> From: Brian Durant
> Reply To: winmac@iffy.com
> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 6:50 AM
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> Subject: [WinMac] hfsutils/KDE error.
>
> I am trying to access Mac formated Zip disks at /dev/sda4 on an AMD powered
> box with SuSE 7.3 Pro and KDE 2.2.1. I invoked "hmount /dev/sda4" from root,
> exited the console, and clicked on the Zip drive icon on my KDE 2.2.1
> desktop. The following error popped up:
>
> "Could not mount device. The reported error was:
> mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified."
>
> What am I doing wrong and how can I get HFS formatted Zip drives to mount
> automagically on my desktop the same way I can with DOS/Win formatted Zip
> drives? I have looked in the /etc/fstab and the setting is:
>
> /dev/sda4 /media/zip auto noauto,user 0 0
>
> Not sure how to read this. Is it set to auto or noauto? If it is is set to
> auto and I have hfsutils installed, why won't it work they way I want?
>
> I also tried with xhfs to /dev/sda4 but got the following message:
>
> "Sorry, can't mount volume: error opening medium (Permission denied)."
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian
>
>
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