[G4] Firewire

[James Asherman]

There is a special startup mode called "firewire Target" that is for  
this task. Generally used for cloning a complete system.
On Jan 4, 2010, at 6:53 PM, Eric Smith wrote:

> Firewire is a serial data bus interface, as USB is also. Some storage
> devices use Firewire (1394) interface, some use USB, and some may be
> configurable to use either. (And others will use entirely different
> bus interfaces like ATA or SATA.)
>
> I'm not sure exactly what you mean by moving information from one
> hard drive to another. Generally one uses one's computer to do this,
> so that information goes from one drive through the computer's
> memory to the the other drive. In that case you just connect both
> drives to the computer through whatever interface they use - USB, or
> Firewire, or other. The computer handles the low-level communication
> protocols, and the user uses a high-level application to do the data
> transfer.
>
> Eric
>
> Anthony Lynch wrote:
>> Ok,
>> So what is firewire? I've read several definitions online as well  
>> as a few in print and none tell me how to use firewire for what I  
>> would like to use it for which is connecting Macs to move  
>> information, applications etc., from one hard drive to another. Any  
>> suggestions?
>> Anthony
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