FireWire on Mac

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 9:23 am

Hehe, my friend - who is a two-left-hand man regarding computers told me once a tip that I wouldn't suspect him to know

If you have two Macs and would like to transfer files between them ocasionally you can connect them both with a plain FireWire cable. Than you have to boot one of them holding "t" - it will then act like a firewire disk

. Of course the second computer should be started as usual.

[ This Message was edited by: samplaire on 2005-03-04 09:24 ]

Post by **hubird** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 9:52 am

those are the friends

maurizior · Post by **maurizior** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 9:29 am

UNBELIEVABLE ! ! !

You dont find friends like that no more.

wolf · Post by **wolf** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:54 pm

Even better you can boot from that target drive, which means you can stick e.g. a powerbook in target mode via firewire to another comp and boot it with your powerbooks config/system. Very nice for transfering/copying a system to another comp, as well.

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 5:40 am

That's very handy, indeed

borg · Post by **borg** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 2:38 pm

so far, i have only been able to do this on my G4 powerbook. neither my b/w G3 nor the imac (one of the first) can do this.
all have 10.3.9 installed...
maybe it's a processor limited feature?

wolf · Post by **wolf** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 11:10 pm

What doesn't work ? Booting in target mode or booting a system from that target disk ?
Btw, for simple file transfering you can also connect the comps with FireWire via Ethernet Protocoll. This way you don't need to reboot the comp.

borg · Post by **borg** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:20 am

thanks, wolf...
yes that was confusing.
it's the starting up as firewire drive that doesn't seem to work on my desktop macs. not a problem at all, though. just my personal obeservation.

[ This Message was edited by: borg on 2005-06-24 10:22 ]

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:08 am

Same for PC, btw, it makes a 400 Mbps LAN. My setup goes laptop > external HD > pc > camera and allows to play with the camera from the laptop, while playing a sequencer with tracks on the Firewire drive and while transferring files over the LAN between pc and laptop.

Firewire is really superb, for example I can control the cam from the laptop while editing the PC's BIOS

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