Big chance that is on /dev/sdb
if no then try /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd
to mount em do in terminal:
su
(you password)
mkdir /mnt/slave
mount /dev/sdb /mnt/slave
change as you like
you drive will be accessible in /mnt/slave folder
in Linux this is the second logical drive inthe extended partition on the primary slave hard drive
Yes. LiveCDs can access the hard drive on a computer, though you will need to know the partition identification to mount that partition.
By default the computer boots the XP installation on the Master hard disk. If you need to access the slave system change slave to master.
The most likely reason is that the drive was formatted with a Linux file system. Reformatting the drive to NTFS or FAT32 will make the drive usable in Windows. You could also install an ext4 driver in Windows to access the drive without reformatting it.
Assuming the entire Mac, as in the hardware is dead, you'll need to take out the hard drive and put it into a different computer, put in a Linux disk, and boot up, assuming it wasn't the hard drive that died.
By formatting the hard drive.
Any reasonably modern Linux kernel (2.4 and higher) and any distro using such a kernel should be able to boot from and access the entirety of a 500 GB hard drive. Examples of modern distros include Ubuntu. OpenSUSE, Debian 5, PCLinuxOS, and Linux Mint.
Formatting the drive would remove any files currently on it. If you want to access a Linux file system from Mac OS X, there are a few programs that can do this, such as Paragon ExtFS for Mac OS X or ext2fsx.
The second drive.....
no a hard drive has a much faster access time...
Configure the hard drive as the master and the CD-ROM as the slave.
No. A L:iveCD will not even touch the hard drive unless you tell it to.