From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 5 12:58:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCD8E16A4BF for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:58:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freshaire.wiz.com (freshaire.wiz.com [66.143.183.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0EB143FEC for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:58:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@wiz.com) Received: from freshaire.wiz.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freshaire.wiz.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h85JwapZ018360 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 14:58:36 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from marc@freshaire.wiz.com) Received: (from marc@localhost) by freshaire.wiz.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h85JwaXX018359 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 14:58:36 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 14:58:35 -0500 From: Marc Wiz To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <20030905195835.GA16760@freshaire.wiz.com> References: <20030905154536.A822@green.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030905154536.A822@green.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Subject: Re: sharing FW drive w/OS-X X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 19:58:38 -0000 On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:52:30PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: > Hi, > > I've been battling this for some time, and I figured perhaps someone here > has done this already. I have a 60GB IDE drive in a firewire enclosure. > Works great w/FreeBSD. It's partitioned like so: > > Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype > Flags > > 0 63 62 - 12 unused 0 > 63 94365747 94365809 da0s1 8 freebsd 165 > 94365810 22860495 117226304 da0s2 7 fat 6 > 117226305 5103 117231407 - 12 unused 0 > > > And I'd like to use one of those spare fdisk partitons (not a slice) on my > OS-X machine for backup purposes. The "fat" partition is left over from a > test to see if a "newfs_msdos" partition would mount on OS-X (it did). > Any idea on the partition ID for HFS? > While we're talking about Firewire is it possible to have the firewire enclosure connected to two systems at the same time so you don't have to go about unplugging and plugging cables? Assuming that the above can be done, what about simultaenous access to the device (both systems accessing the device at the same time)? Will it work if only reads are done? I won't open the can of worms of simultaneous write access :-) Thanks, Marc -- Marc Wiz marc@wiz.com Yes, that really is my last name.