Files can't mount a Mac OS X (HFS+ Journaled) drive

Asked by michaelg

I have two issues:

1. In the Files application, attempting to mount an external USB hard drive (a right-click on the drive listed in the Devices section of the left pane) results in this error:

Unable to mount External02a-Bak2
Error mounting /dev/sdb2 at /media/kathy/External02a-Bak2: Command-line `mount -t "hfsplus" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/sdb2" "/media/kathy/External02a-Bak2"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: Protocol driver not attached.

2. I have two other Mac volumes that mount but I can’t write to them. All of the folders and files have a lock on them. The owner on the folder is root with 777 (everyone read, write, and execute) permissions which were set while booted into OS X (Mavericks).

I’ve installed both netatalk and libafpclient (via Synaptic) with no change.

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michaelg (michaelg81) said :
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Drive is failing.

Had run Repair Disk in Mac OS X and had a successful report from Apple's Disk Utility before trying to mount it in elementaryOS. However, when the drive was moved to a different OS X workstation and cloned to a second drive, the cloning tool (Carbon Copy Cloner) reported many files as unrecoverable due to a bad sector on the disk.