#FIREWIRE CABLE FOR TARGET DISK MODE HOW TO#
I'm not too farmilier as to how to use target disk mode, but it seems i did everything right. I also tried putting the PowerMac into Target disk mode, and the iBook couldn't reconize it. While it is possible to use target disk mode. However, My Powermac G4 never found the iBook, I tried connecting the cable to both of the firewire ports on the Logic board, and the other two on my expansion card, but nothing, it couldn't find the iBook, not even in disk utility. You need a Thunderbolt 3, USB-C, Thunderbolt 2, or FireWire cable to establish a connection. The cable finally arrived today, and I set the iBook to restart into target disk mode in system preferences, and connected the cable to both computers, it rebooted, and showed a yellow firewire logo, on a blue screen. Get the Right Cable Reading the Mac Hard.
On the Mac you want to use as the external disk in target disk mode, do one of the following. On the source Mac either: Restart the Mac and once it starts booting hold down the T key until you see the Target Disk Mode screen with a bouncing Thunderbolt logo. Restart the target Mac and wait till Thunderbolt/FireWire logo appears on the screen. Hello, recently, i bought a firewire 400 cable to connect my iBook G3 to my PowerMac G4 MDD, to transfer files too large to for my flash drive. Target Disk Mode is only compatible with FireWire or Thunderbolt transfers. Connect the two computers with a FireWire or Thunderbolt cable. Click on the lock icon and enter the administrator password, then click Target Disk Mode.