mac partitions in AMD64 = broken

[cactus]

I am running kernel 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 in an AMD64 machine. I have some data in an IDE drive which belonged to a ppc machine (running gentoo in both machines). The disklabel is in mac format, so I enabled that in the kernel. When I boot I can see that all the partitions are seen by linux:

hda: 234493056 sectors (120060 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [mac] p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7 p8

However I only get the following in /dev :

bash-2.05b# ls /dev/hda*
/dev/hda /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3

(I am using udev). Any ideas?

Thanks for any help...

[genfoo]

If there have also been partitions setup on that drive with x86 style partitioning they will override the mac type ones every time. Not sure if there's a simple way around it, but it looks like may be the problem you are seeing. If you an do it (not sure what you are using for native format types) you could try disabling x86 support (you probably can't do this).

lastly you could put the drive in a ppc (even a firewire case) and boot from a live cd to rescue the data.

[cactus]

There have been no x86 partitions of any kind in this disk; it was partitioned formatted and used in a G3 running gentoo and Macos 9. The disk is working perfectly in the G3; although the G3 itself is dying
What bugs me more than anything else is that the kernel recognizes the partitions when booting; but then they misteriously dissapear!