[nycbug-talk] HFS+ in FreeBSD

[Charles Sprickman]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Kit Halsted wrote:

> Have you got access to any Apple gear with USB 2.0? I'd suggest a USB 2.0 to 
> SATA + IDE (2.5 / 3.5 / 5.25") Cable Adapter from geeks.com.
>
> http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2020&cat=CBL

Ordered it.  Thanks!

That looks insanely handy.  Much more fun than fiddling with enclosures.

Charles

> Cheap, effective, & useful for other situations as well.
>
> HTH,
> -Kit
> At 11:34 PM -0500 1/25/07, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Long story, but I've recently had both my iBook and my G5 tower die.
>> 
>> No biggie for the most part since the iBook was not expected to live much
>> longer so I got a deal ($1300) on a CoreDuo MacBook Pro.
>> 
>> However I'm now looking at an SATA disk with an Apple partition table and
>> an HFS+ FS on it.  I have no functioning Apple gear with an SATA port.  I
>> have one 1U server (temporarily) running FreeBSD 6.2 with SATA ports.
>> 
>> I want to pull a few files (like my accounting system stuff with the last
>> few weeks of billing) off the drive...
>> 
>> Any quickie ideas?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Charles
>
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