Macintosh CD's mount on Linux?

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 7:57 PM, geo <yaktur at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From my old Mac days (pre-OS X) I have a number of CD which I burned as
> backups.
>
> I've installed hfsutils, hfsplus, hfsutils-tcltk but when I try to make the
> computer mount any of my Mac CDs within xhfs it fails with a crash (see
> below).
>
> Manually mounting it fails too. I don't believe all of my Mac CDs (probably
> 30 of them) are bad, they were made only a few years ago.

How old are these CD-R?  I wouldn't trust CD-R for long-term archival purposes:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/09/01/cdrs_deliver_degrading_experience/

"According to the Dutch magazine PC Active some CD-Rs degrade in
months, even at room temperature without sunlight.  PC Active tested
data disks from 30 manufacturers that were recorded 20 months ago.
Several data CDs developed serious errors, or became virtually
unreadable."

I would guess here the problem is something else since statistically
someone would expect that at least one of the 30 would have survived.
But that article is a reminder than any physical media is bound to
fail one day.

As for xhfs, I took a quick look at Launchpad and the Debian BTS, and
there are no open bug reports similar to this problem.

Do you have access to a Mac?  I would expect any Mac, even recent
ones, should be able to read these old CD, if they are still readable.
At least that would ruled out a problem with these CD-R.




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