[G4] G4 MDD HD ?

[James Pacyga]

Don't quote me, but I don't think you need the cross over cable, you 
can plug directly into the boxes with a stardard cable - they autosense 
tx anr rx on the cable and adapt.  I did this when I loaded up my 
parents iMac from my iBook.  Unfortunately I found out after I paid $20 
for a cross-over!  Oops.


On Jul 17, 2005, at 2:35 PM, Johns Maillist wrote:

>
> On Jul 17, 2005, at 5:16 PM, Daniel Brieck Jr. wrote:
>
>> So all you really need is a  ethernet cable, you can get one for less 
>> than $5.00. It may be a little slower than the firewire method, but 
>> it will get done what you want done and you will not have to add any 
>> PCI firewire cards to your G3(which are not exactly cheap) for a one 
>> time file transfer. In general all you need to do is plug in the 
>> ethernet cable (looks like a wide telephone cord jack) into the G3 
>> and the other end into the G4. Turn on file sharing and you are all 
>> set to transfer files.
>
> BUT......
> Either plug them both into a hub, or use a cross-over cable!
> J
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