[nycbug-talk] HFS+ in FreeBSD

Kit Halsted kit at kithalsted.com
Fri Jan 26 00:28:24 EST 2007


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

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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Kit Halsted
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