Comments on: Firewire Target Disk Mode

By: Macuserppcintel

Macuserppcintel — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:53 +0000

but this guys a noob if he didnt know that and if ur mac is in target and u put to ur shitty pc i belive it just notices its a hd but probably cant open since its not a fat or ntfs cause when i put my external up to my macbook on xp it didnt show up so i partitoned some to shitty xp and im using it ah

By: Macuserppcintel

Macuserppcintel — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:53 +0000

By: Macuserppcintel

Macuserppcintel — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:53 +0000

By: Macuserppcintel

Macuserppcintel — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:46:08 +0000

and u can install os onto the firewire drive when its targeted

By: Macuserppcintel

Macuserppcintel — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:44:39 +0000

touch yourself

By: WPGsk8Dillon

WPGsk8Dillon — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:23:26 +0000

my firewire freezes my comp what can i do!!!!

By: johnaiton

johnaiton — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:47:52 +0000

LOL, he’s drawing chris

By: stvh1

stvh1 — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:29:36 +0000

What a putz!!!!

By: Jesse Wallace

Jesse Wallace — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:32:56 +0000

Isn’t this just booting one of the computers in target disk mode? I believe that’s what the ‘T’ stands for. I know Macs have been able to do this for awhile all the way back to the SCSI-based machines.

By: alazari

alazari — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:21:02 +0000

thanks a lot!!! very cool

By: rooboy69

rooboy69 — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:19:18 +0000

short answer yes

By: David

David — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:43:26 +0000

Chris,
Love your show, both old, and new!
The tip you talk about is NOT FireWire Networking!
It is “FireWire Target Disk Mode”, it has been around for years (over Ten), first with SCSI ports (called SCSI Disk Mode), and now with FireWire ports.
It mounts the target computers drive on your Desktop, but it isn’t a “Network” connection. Here is the proper way to network a Mac with FireWire.:
Using IP over FireWire
You can set up your computer to connect to other computers over FireWire, using the Internet Protocol (IP).
To connect computers using IP over FireWire:

Connect a FireWire cable to the FireWire ports on the computers you want to connect.

Choose Apple > System Preferences, and then click Network.

Click FireWire from the network connection services list.

Enter the DNS and search domain addresses if your network requires them. Check with the network administrator or your service provider if you’re not sure what the addresses are.

Click Apply.

-David

By: alazari

alazari — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:34:54 +0000

Hi I am a widows user and tomorow I expect my new imac. Whould I be able to transfer my files throw the firewire?

By: mark

mark — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:34:42 +0000

Hi Chris, that’s not actually ‘networking’ – it’s called Firewire target-disk mode and it basically turns a machine booted holding down the ‘t’ key into an external firewire hardrive.

It’s useful for lot’s of things, including installing OS’s on machines that are not ’supported’ or have broken DVD drives or whatever…

But you actually CAN use firewire for networking! Say you have one machine that has an internet connection via wireless or whatever and another that doesn’t, but it does have firewire… you can get that other machine online by ’sharing’ your internet connection via firewire. The connected machine will dole out an IP address to the other via firewire/dhcp.

By: greg stasko

greg stasko — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:44:56 +0000

What you’re describing isn’t firewire networking – it’s firewire disk mode. Firewire networking requires setting up networking over the firewire ports and connecting the machines with a firewire cable.