[G4] G4 MDD HD ?

[Daniel Brieck Jr.]

No james you are exactly right the G4 MDD supports auto sensing ports  
I researched this before hand to say what I did originally to make  
things less confusing... So no gotchas there John...

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42717

Daniel J. Brieck Jr.



On Jul 17, 2005, at 5:52 PM, James Pacyga wrote:

> 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:
>
>
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>> On Jul 17, 2005, at 5:16 PM, Daniel Brieck Jr. wrote:
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>>> 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