[X4U] Macs which support "target disk mode"

[Nick Scalise]

I have a Pismo with fried FW ports and it will *not* go into Target mode.

It attempts to, then just continues to boot. The computer seems to check if Target mode will actually work.

---- "Michael W. Sumbera" <sumbera at mac.com> wrote: 
> Even if the FW ports are fried, the system should still go into target  
> disk mode.  Without being connected to any external devices, if you  
> boot it holding down T, the FW symbol should appear on the display as  
> it goes through it's disk mode functions.
> 
> On Jan 23, 2008, at 7:01 AM, Jim Robertson wrote:
> 
> > On 1/22/08 6:01 PM, "Terence Cozad" <tcozad at covad.net> wrote:
> >
> >> If it still does not work I would suspect hardware or a bad  
> >> firewire port
> >> perhaps. Try the other port. I know the old Blue and White G3 could  
> >> not boot
> >> this way from the firewire port (I had one) but all towers since then
> >> should.
> >> Just my 2 cent but hope you get it figured out.
> >> Terry
> >
> > NO offer of help is ever considered flip :-)
> >
> > We did fry the ethernet port on the mirrored doors  G4 a few years  
> > ago, but
> > solved that by putting in a PCI ethernet card. Perhaps the FW ports
> > themselves ARE gone. I guess I could test that by hooking up one of my
> > digital camera cardreaders that communicates over FW and see if the  
> > mirrored
> > doors computer can recognize them.
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Nick Scalise
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