[Duo2400] 2400: firewire

[Ivan Drucker]

>Dear Gurus,
>	 Can I connect my iMac (DV) to my 2400 with a firewire pc card? If
>so, can I use the iMac as a backup hard drive?
>					Donald McCaig

I can't remember if the iMac DV supports Target Disk Mode or not. In 
short, if you start up your iMac, and hold down the T key immediately 
after the chime, within a few seconds you might see a floating FireWire 
logo rather than the usual startup stuff. If so, you may then connect it 
to a started-up 2400 with a FireWire card, and it will appear to the 2400 
as a FireWire disk (which you may then use for backup, etc). To shut 
down, *first unmount the iMac volume(s) from the 2400*, then hold down 
the power button on your iMac until it shuts off.

If you can't get the floating FireWire logo, then you don't support 
Target Disk Mode on the iMac, and you can't connect the two machines via 
FireWire. You can't do Target Disk Mode on the 2400 (well, you can, but 
for SCSI only, and only if you have 4 GB or less for a hard drive).

If you don't already have a FireWire card, you will need to first enable 
your 2400 for Cardbus before you can use one, and you will need Mac OS 
8.6 or later. Also, you will need the extension "FireWire Cardbus 
Enabler", and version 2.7 or later of the extensions "FireWire Support" 
and "FireWire Enabler." If you don't have these, you can pull them out of 
the "Installation Tome" file of the 9.1 or 9.2.1 updaters (which you can 
download from Apple) with TomeViewer (available from versiontracker.com).

Ivan.


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