[G4] Startup chime but no dice!

[Jay E. Krauss Jr]

Jeff,
	You only need the keyboard attached to the MDD while actually 
booting, so you could disconnect your keyboard from the G5, attach it 
to the MDD, boot the MDD into Firewire Target, then disconnect the 
keyboard from the MDD and reattach to the G5. Since you don't have 
"video out" from the MDD, you will not be able to tell by seeing the 
Firewire symbol on your MDD attached monitor when the process has 
occurred; however, it has been my experience that the process occurs 
fairly quickly, so if you boot the MDD and keep the "T" button 
depressed for a minute, that should be more than enough time for the 
process to occur (providing it does at all).
Jay





>Jay, great stuff here.. so stupid, I should've thought about 
>firewire disk mode.. man!.. hey, can I FDM with only one mouse 
>keyboard attached to my G5? don't have one yet for the G4... yes 
>only one drive in the mdd.. Jeff
>On Nov 6, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Jay E. Krauss Jr wrote:
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>>Jeff,
>>	The MDD is designed to start up in Firewire Target mode. 
>>Since your G5 has Firewire, you could attempt to boot the MDD with 
>>"T" depressed (presuming some message gets from the keyboard to the 
>>MDD's "innards"). I'm not sure how much of the MDD's logic board, 
>>RAM. etc is required to get into Firewire Target mode, but even if 
>>there is no video from the MDD, the G5 (if Target mode entered) 
>>would see the MDD's first (only?) hard drive. You could then 
>>inspect the drive to see what was on it and (possibly) run repairs 
>>with Disk Utility, DiskWarrior, TechTool, Drive Genius, etc. This, 
>>of course, does not permit checking the logic board or RAM of the 
>>MDD, and even if hard drive access and repairs were possible, the 
>>MDD may still not boot if there is a logic board or RAM problem.
>>	Just a thought.
>>Jay
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