Target Mode with ibook G3 and macbook CD

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Target Mode with ibook G3 and macbook CD

So I am trying to boot my ibook G3 laptop into target mode to put files on my macbook CD. The ibook seems to boot just fine into target mode, I get the firewire icon on the screen and it bounces around like I was told it should. However after 5 mins, I still do not see the hard drive become available on my macbook. I checked, the firewire port on my macbook is fully functional (it works just fine with my external hard drive).

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Posted on Aug 23, 2008 7:41 AM

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Answer 1

sdschramm

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Aug 23, 2008 11:42 AM in response to Frank Antao

Put your iBook in Target disk mode. Then shut down your macbook. Start up your macbook again and wait a little bit and it should come up.

I had the same problem with my iBook and iMac, it ended up if I restarted my iMac enough times, jiggled the firewire cable (which by the way, the first 2 I bought never worked - but on my 3rd one, it worked fine)

So I hoped that helps.

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Answer 2

Aug 24, 2008 1:28 PM in response to Frank Antao

Try mounting the iBook HD with disk utility.

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Answer 3

Aug 24, 2008 3:03 PM in response to Frank Antao

From this Apple Knowledge Base article on how to use FireWire Target Disk Mode:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661

+If the target computer's hard disk does not become available to the host computer, check the cable connections and restart the host computer.+

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Answer 4

Aug 30, 2008 10:20 PM in response to Frank Antao

you said you have an external harddrive, plug that into the ibook and copy files from ibook-to-firewire harddrive-to-macbook.

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