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Before I ever entertained any sort of soft solution, I would have the drive out and plugged into a XYZ to USB interface. Simple manner of installing hfsprogs mo
by jtriangle 2y ago
Before I ever entertained any sort of soft solution, I would have the drive out and plugged into a XYZ to USB interface. Simple manner of installing hfsprogs mounting the drive, yanking the files you want off, and you're done.
The proprietary connector might prove to be a problem, would likely have to bodge your way to victory there, but, mercifully, old stuff tends to work when bodged just fine.
Perks of being a hardware guy first to be honest.
- TacticalCoder 2y agoI'm a software guy and my first reaction was the same: "Two words: eBay, Linux". But then it turns out: taking the harddrive out of that Powerbook Duo 280c is kinda sorta a real mess for it requires taking the entire laptop apart (I just looked at an online teardown video of that old Mac laptop). Now the advantage of eBay+Linux is that it works even if the screen is broken, if the laptop doesn't boot, etc. It works as long as the harddrive still boots.
- ssl-3 2y agoThere's no reason to open the laptop to access the disk from another computer. With a dock, that laptop gains an external SCSI port. And with an external SCSI port, it can boot up in a mode wherein the whole laptop behaves like a standalone SCSI disk -- ready to use with whatever other computer with SCSI from the past 40-ish years that one can muster up.