RE: [WinMac] hfsutils/KDE error.

Subject: RE: [WinMac] hfsutils/KDE error.
From: Wilcox, Curtis (cwilcox[at]esm.rochester.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 22 2002 - 11:39:42 EDT

 Tom, he's running a Linux distribution. Dataviz doesn't make any software
for UNIX.

Brian, I'm not really a Linux guy but I think I can fill in some details.
With the "auto, noauto" thing, I think the first auto means it should
autodetect the file system on the disk, that is figure out that it's
formatted hfs on its own. The "noauto" means it should not automount the
device when fstab is invoked, when the computer boots for example.

In UNIX, each file system has its own mount program, such as mount_cd9660
for CDs and when "auto" is set, it's supposed to pick the correct one,
presumably based on some initial test of the file system. I'm not sure where
mount programs are kept (in OS X they're in /sbin/) but you might want to
confirm that mount_hfs is there. You could also try changing the line in
fstab from auto to mount_hfs then try an HFS formatted Zip.

Normally you have to be 'root' to mount drives but I think some tools get
around that. Sounds like xhfs wasn't run as root and requires it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Roth
To: winmac@iffy.com
Sent: 4/22/02 9:00 AM
Subject: RE: [WinMac] hfsutils/KDE error.

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.

> ----------
> From: Brian Durant
> Reply To: winmac@iffy.com
> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 6:50 AM
> To: WinMac List
> 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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