[Ti] Target Disk Mode Problems

[Kynan Shook]

You might want to check the cable you're using.  Bad cables can do 
nasty stuff on FireWire...  Like fry your FireWire ports


Kynan Shook
kshook at mac.com
http://homepage.mac.com/kshook/index.html.

Chris Malanga <tibook at chrismalanga.fastmail.fm> writes:
> Me sister just bought at 12" PowerBook G4 for college (Yay!).  We were
> trying to transfer some stuff from my PowerBook to hers.  I thought I 
> would
> use Target Disk Mode to do so.  I put the 12" in TDM and attached it 
> to my
> computer.  The drive would not mount on my Ti.  After about two full
> minutes, I pulled the FireWire cord and got the warning about the disk 
> not
> being put away properly.  So I shut my machine down and rebooted with 
> hers
> attached.  At startup, it waited for over three minutes with a message 
> like
> "Waiting for disks..." then after startup was finished, her drive 
> mounted.
>
> My questions: (1) Is this amount of time to mount a disk both in the 
> finder
> and on startup normal?  And if not, (2) is there anything I could do to
> correct this?