[X4U] Re: X4U] New Mac Upgrade

[John Baltutis]

On 10/18/06, Daly Jessup <jessup at san.rr.com> wrote:
> At 3:06 PM -0400 18/10/06, John Belen wrote:
>>Aha!! But therein lies the twist!!
>>
>>The reason that I am upgrading is because the Firewire port on my
>>Titanium is burned out, hence no Target mode. Now! That being said,
>>I DO have an external enclosure that I can toss my Titanium
>>harddrive into. Will Migration Assistant work if I stick my drive in
>>an enclosure?
>
> I don't see how you could do Firewire mode with an external
> enclosure. The signal to a computer to mount in FW target disk mode
> is to hold down its "T" key. With just an external drive, you don't
> have that "T" key. You just have an  actual external FW drive, not a
> computer being made to function as if it were an external drive.

Daly, the OP's new machine has a usable FW port(s). It's the old machine with
the burnt out one so he can't hook it up via TDM. He's moving the old
computer's HD to the FW enclosure; thus, he'll be able to use the MA.