[Ti] Target Mode

[Mark Gibson]

At 01:27 +0100 8/2/05, Kim Gammelgård wrote:
>Hey Mark,
>
>We were not talking about Ethernet at all! We 
>were talking about using a crossover Firewire 
>cable instead! I have no idea if it needs a 
>special crossover cable or not. I just got a 
>firewire cable and that works - and that a lot 
>faster than 100 Mbit Ethernet too!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Kim
>
>Den 7. feb 2005, kl. 22.36, skrev 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.
>>
>>--
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Mark (}-:

Kim,

Yes I know "Target Mode" doesn't need Ethernet, 
nor for your information, is there such a thing a 
a cross over Firewire cable.

I was responding to the previous post by Jason 
(please read the paras above, specifically: 
"almost as fast as running gigabit from one 
tibook to another. for that all you need is a 
crossover cable") which spoke about setting up IP 
addresses and copying data between Macs and PC's 
that way.

Somehow I don't think that is achieved using 
"Target Mode"  but standard Ethernet cabling - 
which amazingly enough was what I was answering.

-- 

Regards,

Mark (}-:

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