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Matthew Hughes
Personal blog · matthewhughes.co.uk · on HN as matthewjhugheswebprogramming
Matthew Hughes's personal blog at matthewhughes.co.uk covers web and programming. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post on copying files off a 30-year-old laptop's internal SCSI drive with an HFS filesystem. One commenter called the approach creative and interesting but disputed the post's concerns about the connector and file system.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Matthew Hughes - UK based writer and software developer.
What Hacker News says?
Very creative and interesting ie 'use whatever tools/knowledge you have' but: > The internal hard drive uses SCSI with an unusual connector. This is literally never an issue as old connectors are easily obtainable (in particular 'in this day and age'). > Adapting it didn't seem straightforward, and we weren't confident the old file system (HFS) would be easy to read from a modern system. Simple search pulled this up…
Comment linking /how-to-mount-hfs-classic-drives-on-macos-catalina-and-later/
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