[olug] (OT) Loner Mac

[Steven Susbauer]

On Sun, 10 May 2009 03:12:36 -0500, Adam Lassek <adam at doubleprime.net>  
wrote:

> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Cheyenne Deal  
> <deal.cheyenne at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> They have the flat panel iMac G5 with the isight. Whenever I put the  
>> drive
>> in one of my machines, the bios shows unknown device and the os does  
>> not see
>> it. It is a apple type of western digital, using sata.
>>
> What OS are you trying to access it from? Be sure you have HFS+ support
> installed.
>

It is possible the PC BIOS does not recognize it because it is using the  
Apple Partition Map. APM was used on all the PowerPC Macs. You may have to  
add support in the Linux kernel to support the non-standard partition  
table, as I doubt most PC distros include it (the kernel option is  
MAC_PARTITION - in the menu/xconfig hidden in File Systems> Partition  
Types> Advanced Partition Selection). You will still need support for the  
file system as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Partition_Map

    Cheers,
       Steve