[Ti] Target Mode

[Mark Gibson]

At 16:09 -0500 7/2/05, Carbotron wrote:
>I have to admit the firewire networking is very 
>fast! indeed almost as fast as running gigabit 
>from one tibook to another. for that all you 
>need is a crossover cable, of almost any quality 
>if it's short, really.
>i successfully ran a firewire network in a pinch 
>from my winxp gaming box(through a few old vaxes 
>and an ipx) to my 800 for a good several months 
>till i got tired of it. now that i have wifi, i 
>still find myself hooking up the firewire to 
>xfer lots of files at a laptop hd limited speed. 
>still damn fast.
>
>	-Jason Economou
>	Carbotron Composites
>
>
>On Feb 7, 2005, at 4:02 PM, Kim Gammelgård wrote:
>
>Just a side note:
>
>Instead of using target mode, you can add a 
>Firewire network setting in the network settings 
>of two computers.
>
>Set the IP-addresses manually to say 10.0.0.1 
>and 10.0.0.2 and let the one be the router and 
>then open file sharing on one and connect the 
>other to that.
>
>Then you don't have to boot your computer and 
>can use it while transferring files at Firewire 
>speed!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Kim
>
>
>
>Den 7. feb 2005, kl. 21.43, skrev Justin R. Miller:
>
>>On Feb 7, 2005, at 3:37 PM, Larry Melman wrote:
>>
>>>What the heck is Target Mode?
>>
>>If you hook two Macs together with FireWire and 
>>reboot one while holding the T key, it will act 
>>as a FireWire server of sorts and its hard 
>>drive will show up on the other's desktop. 
>>Very handy for migrating or copying large 
>>amounts of files between computers.

Actually you don't need a "cross over" cable as 
the auto sensing Ethernet port in the PowerBook 
will automatically reconfigure to make a standard 
cable into a "cross over" cable as required.

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