On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 06:13:38PM -0400, bofh wrote: > On 5/1/09, Jason Dixon <ja...@dixongroup.net> wrote: > > On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 02:50:48PM -0700, jebyrnes wrote: > >> Hello, all. I have a question. A long time ago in college I ran an > >> openBSD > >> server. It was an old, cantankerous machine, and eventually something > >> happened to the motherboard, and it died. The drives, with all of their > >> data, are still fine. In fact, I'd like to recover the data. In my > >> current > >> situation, I don't have access to the equipment to put together a new box > >> with the old drives in it. I would like to get the data, off, however. > >> All > >> I have is a mac laptop. > >> > >> Will OSX be able to access these drives? Are their any utilities that > >> would > >> help in this? It's been a while since I hacked around at this level, so > >> would appreciate any advice you all could give. Thanks. > > > > Find an external USB enclosure. Toss them in. Connect it. Boot > > OpenBSD in a virtual machine. Mount drive. Read files. > > > I'd s/external usb enclosure/ide+sata->usb adapter/ > > Much more flexible, and cheaper, iirc.
Technically, I said _find_, not buy. ;) -- Jason Dixon DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net/
