From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:20:51 -0800 From: Ira Weiny To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: TiBook, 1394, iPod working (sort of ;-) Message-Id: <20011127152051.65abd20b.iweiny@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <20011127221834.23360@smtp.wanadoo.fr> References: <20011127221834.23360@smtp.wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:18:34 +0100 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > No, you didn't ;) In fact, I even think recent MacOS (or is it MacOS X ?) > may create pure HFS+ volumes without the wrapper. > > The main reason for the wrapper was for machines running non-HFS+ capable > filesystem to display something (where are all my files gone ?) instead > of proposing you to format the disk, and for the system to be able to > boot from HFS+ since OldWorld ROMs didn't understand it. Basically, the > wrapper contains a slim-fast MacOS System file which contains the necessary > HFS+ support to mount the real volume and continue booting from that. > I think this makes sence because with Linux the HFS+ partition on my HD shows up with the "where are all my files gone?" thing. (Which BTW dropped me into xmon when I vim'ed it...) But the iPod did not show up with anything intelligable. Must be that the iPod is "pure" HFS+ when the other is a wrapper. To quote a pointy eared character "Fascinating." Thanks for the info, Ira Weiny iweiny@acm.org ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/