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[Marc Sira]

> 3. Press and hold the "z" key on the 2400. While keeping it pressed, 
> turn the 2400 on. If the voodoo doll worked, you should see a big ugly 
> SCSI port icon on the 2400's LCD screen. There should be a number, too. 
> That's the SCSI ID the 2400 is currently at.

This step (the 'z' key) has no effect on the 2400. The 30th pin on the
SCSI cable / switchable adaptor already told the SCSI firmware to go into
target mode. The only place the 'z' key has an effect AFAIK is on the Newer
SCSI microdock (and Ultradock) firmware. In that case you can use a regular
HDI-29 cable, because the 'z' key achieves the same purpose as the 30th pin.

> 4. Turn on the other Mac. Do NOT hold "z" on this one. Doing so would 
> defeat the purpose of this whole shindig.

Again, just extra voodoo anyway unless the other Mac is a Duo with a SCSI
microdock.

It's actually a shame the 'z' key trick *didn't* work on all Macs with SCSI
target mode. It was a nice idea, and Apple could have skipped the whole
confusion of having two separate cables, or the silly proprietary HDI
connectors at all (though they also made money from those expensive
accessories). They did finally adopt the idea for Firewire target mode with
the 't' key on newer Macs.

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