Now I see. You don't need a monitor/display in the Mac that will stay in target disk mode (well, you need if you want to watch the FireWire logo displayin' there as a screen saver), but you wiil need an active display/monitor in the Mac that runs tha ACTIVE system. LM >>>raub at afn.org 03/01/07 6:00 pm >>> If I boot the cube and set it in target disk mode, so I can then attach it to my ibook as an external drive, why would the cube need a monitor? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/cube/attachments/20070301/fd1c612a/attachment.html