Trouble accessing harddrive

Question

Hoping someone can help me out here, im quite new so please excuse any false assumptions.

I recently had a relatives mac boot drive fail(seems mechanically fine, but wont appear in OSX or windows). I decided to try plugging it into one of my macs thats dual booted with ubuntu.

The drive does not appear as a drive normally would, however I can see the computer recognize it when plugged in(so im assuming ill have to force mount it?).

The drive appears in lsusb and dmesg(see below for output), however it doesn't show up in fdisk, dev/ or lsscsi so i dont have a location to force mount from(if that makes sense).

Here is the dmesg output:

phillip@phillip-MacBook:~$ dmesg | tail
[  831.605083] scsi host4: usb-storage 1-2:1.0
[  831.605533] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[  831.615541] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[  862.869622] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, device number 4
[  998.212232] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci
[  998.348140] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=1f75, idProduct=0621
[  998.348152] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=4, Product=5, SerialNumber=6
[  998.348159] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 1
[  998.566959] usb-storage 1-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[  998.567521] scsi host5: usb-storage 1-2:1.0

Judging by the output of successful mounts ive seen, should it not be handing that off to another process?

Edit: Im just realizing now that it says using "ehci-pci"........im pretty sure one of the earlier times I was toying with this is it was "uhci".....does that make sense?

Here is the lsusb output:(drive is device 6 in list)

phillip@phillip-MacBook:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05ac:8300 Apple, Inc. Built-in iSight (no firmware loaded)
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 007 Device 003: ID 05ac:0229 Apple, Inc. Internal Keyboard/Trackpad (MacBook Pro) (ANSI)
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 05ac:8242 Apple, Inc. Built-in IR Receiver
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 1f75:0621 Innostor Technology Corporation 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 05ac:8205 Apple, Inc. Bluetooth HCI
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Here is sudo blkid:

/dev/sda1: LABEL="EFI" UUID="70D6-1701" TYPE="vfat" 
/dev/sda2: UUID="13bc40a0-e29b-33fd-adb4-c04e173b2ff2" LABEL="Macintosh HD" TYPE="hfsplus" 
/dev/sda4: UUID="38a678ae-0c9b-4c1c-a333-f5c9551eb13f" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID="6b0d0a7f-776e-4534-b618-a21b0aa2ce86" TYPE="swap"

Output of lsusb -D /dev/bus/usb/002/005

phillip@phillip-MacBook:~$ lsusb -D /dev/bus/usb/002/005
Device: ID 1f75:0621 Innostor Technology Corporation 
Couldn't open device, some information will be missing
Device Descriptor:
  bLength                18
  bDescriptorType         1
  bcdUSB               2.10
  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)
  bDeviceSubClass         0 
  bDeviceProtocol         0 
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  idVendor           0x1f75 Innostor Technology Corporation
  idProduct          0x0621 
  bcdDevice            0.36
  iManufacturer           4 
  iProduct                5 
  iSerial                 6 
  bNumConfigurations      1
  Configuration Descriptor:
    bLength                 9
    bDescriptorType         2
    wTotalLength           32
    bNumInterfaces          1
    bConfigurationValue     1
    iConfiguration          0 
    bmAttributes         0x80
      (Bus Powered)
    MaxPower              500mA
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        0
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           2
      bInterfaceClass         8 Mass Storage
      bInterfaceSubClass      6 SCSI
      bInterfaceProtocol     80 Bulk-Only
      iInterface              0 
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        bInterval               0
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x02  EP 2 OUT
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        bInterval               0

Anybody have any suggestions on where to go next?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

If this was from OSX you will probably have to add some packages for hfs type filesystem support. Run the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install hfsutils hfsplus hfsprogs