Timeline for How to mount Macintosh Performa's HFS (not HFS+) Filesystem
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| Jan 12, 2021 at 15:53 | comment | added | benni | I appreciate the idea of a network, but see no way to easly set it up. Macintosh does only provide apple talk which I would need to convert to an IP based something. It is not just plugging the mac into a network. Beside of that I am pretty sure that there is no FTP or Netscape installed. But I will have another look. | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 11:43 | comment | added | beastwagon | I would put a copy of raspberry pi in it. Less than a gig and boot from usb if you can. Just get machine running. You don’t even need an HD to run a copy of it. I have an old G5 I’m toying with doing the same. Power sucker though. I’m used to Bash so it’s easier for me to work with BSD. | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 0:47 | comment | added | PoC | I'd also look preferably into transferring data via network. It's comparatively easy to get an FTP server up and running. Assumed the old Macs have Netscape, Fetch or Anarchie installed (FTP clients), you can transfer those files you want to keep in binary (not MacBinary!) mode to your Linux box. If applications there can actually read the data format, is a completely different topic. I'm also sure that most content of the disk(s) is applications and you not need to transfer 250 MB of documents. | |
| Jan 11, 2021 at 21:33 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jan 11, 2021 at 20:43 | answer | added | RETRAC | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 11, 2021 at 15:41 | comment | added | fadden | I've successfully read HFS volumes on a Windows system using CiderPress (a2ciderpress.com). SCSI drives from my Apple IIgs and CD-ROM "ISO" images work fine. The code is based on Robert Leslie's hfsutils library. CiderPress understands the Apple partition format, which might be an issue. | |
| Jan 11, 2021 at 15:28 | comment | added | Tommy | HFS is natively readable under modern macOS up to version 10.14 (‘Mojave’, if we must), which was the 2018 release. So any Mac still running the same OS as it did in mid-2019 or earlier can read HFS in principle. | |
| Jan 11, 2021 at 15:13 | answer | added | sibaz | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jan 11, 2021 at 13:08 | comment | added | Brian H | Sometimes model details matter and I am confused by your model numbers given. Can you double-check whether you have a "Performa 630" (vs. 360) and/or a "Performa 430" (vs. 420)? | |
| Jan 11, 2021 at 12:15 | comment | added | dirkt | Do you have a network, modem, serial port or something similar? If yes, with a bit of fiddling, you can probably hook it up to a modern Linux system (with some USB devices for serial ports etc. if necessary) and use that to transfer the data. HFS support on a non-Apple system is a bit hit-and-miss. | |
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| Jan 11, 2021 at 11:28 | history | asked | benni | CC BY-SA 4.0 |