Connecting a G4 to the Macbook Pro

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Connecting a G4 to the Macbook Pro

Hi,

I have an oder G4 desktop circa 2000 that I'm trying to daisy chain to my new quad-core macbook pro.

I've tried connecting via the ethernet cable and also by running the G4 through my iomega external hard drive via firewire > my iomega drive is attached to the macbook pro. The G4 doesn't show up on the desktop in either of these configurations.

I ran across this article from Apple:

How to use and troubleshoot FireWire target disk mode

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

Thought I might try this but don't know how to find the manufacturing date of my G4 to see if it qualifies.

Does anybody have any other suggestions?

Thanks,

ssc

G4-OTHER

Posted on Jun 16, 2012 11:47 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 16, 2012 4:13 PM in response to fotoz

Go to Apple Support Tech Specs and enter the serial number of your G4. The tech specs should give you the approximate date this system was being sold by Apple. It will also list a lot of other info.

http://support.apple.com/specs/

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Answer 2

a brody

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Jun 18, 2012 8:56 AM in response to fotoz

Target Disk Mode just makes the machine that you press T on an external hard drive to other machines. If you are running Lion on the MacBook Pro, there are very few applications that run from 2000 that will work on Lion, due to the lack of Rosetta in Lion. However, many applications exist that can read older documents. If Target Disk Mode does not show the image on the old machine, you may need to replace the PRAM battery of the machine before it will work. Also read this tip:

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2295

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