[G4] Target Disk Mode ?

[Al Poulin]

On Sep 19, 2006, at 10:13 AM, g4-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com 
wrote:

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> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:08:04 -0400
> From: Dale Hoffman <dhoff at margnat.com>
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>> On 19/9/2006 3:18 PM, "SLarsonIH at aol.com" <SLarsonIH at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  I have a QS in the living room, and a MDD in the den. Can I take 
>>> the MDD to
>>>  the living room, connect power to it, connect the two Macs via FW 
>>> cable, but
>>>  not hook up monitor, keyboard or mouse, etc. and see the drives in
>>> the MDD on
>>>  my
>>>  Qs so I can transfer files back and forth? If so, what steps do I 
>>> take? Both
>>> machines have 9.2.2 and 10.3.9 on them.
>
> At 6:06 PM +1000 9/19/06, Tony Johansen wrote:
>> Second thing is a simple ethernet cable should work. I have all my 
>> computers
>> networked via ethernet through a router, I don't see why it wouldn't 
>> work
>> without the router. Worth a try.
>
> If connecting via the ethernet ports (RJ45) between two computers
> without a hub or router you need a special (though inexpensive and
> easily found) "crossover" cable.

The crossover cable is not required with the QS and MDD machines 
running OS 9 and OS X.  Any ethernet cable will do.

Al Poulin
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