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Jan 11, 2012 8:42 AM in response to am-ellpaby Braby,Yes, you can do that and no, nothing will be affected on the mounted drive unless you choose to do so!
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1661
However you should pay particular attention to the section
"Tips for using target disk mode with Intel-based Mac computers"
Also since you don't say which version of OSX in on the PowerBook, note the comments regarding 10.3.9 and earlier together with the related article:
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Jan 12, 2012 7:39 AM in response to am-ellpaby Cattus Thraex,Yes, you can, but with some notes. Braby sent some data, I add some other.
Target Mode has two basic roles:
1. to turn a mac into an external drive and/or external optical drive (if it has one, until Air era, all had); you may use this way if your internal optical drive is damaged and you wish to use the optical unit of the other mac; or use it as a simple external disk for backup purposes or else.
2. to boot from a such-booted mac.
#1 is usable with any two macs disregarding whether they are both PPC, both intel, or combination PPC-intel, as the behavior is like any external disk drive or external optical drive.
#2 is impossible if you want to boot the other mac, they must be both intel or PPC, as you cannot use an intel-based mac as a boot mac for the other ppc-mac, and vice-versa.
So said and clarified, you may use, but not if you intend to boot the other one if you wish to use it for various purposes implying boot.