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Hi,
For Target Disk Mode (between two late 2015 iMacs) I need a Thunderbolt cable.
I don't have one, but from previous Macs I have a Firewire 800 cable
and two Thunderbolt-to-Firewire adapters (Expensive Original Apple adapters).
Will this work?
Thanks.
What happens when you use the cable and adaptors?
Of course its always useful to have at least one thunderbolt cable available.
Never tried it, however, if your goal is simply file copying or perhaps
system migration, you could simply connect the two via ethernet cable
and do network transfer/migration. The gigabit ethernet connection will likely
be just as fast as Firewire800.
Migration Assistant does support migration via ethernet.
Then again, a direct Thunderbolt-to-Thunderbolt connection would ultimately be the fastest
and win hands down over the others.
Thanks, it's not for migration, but for "emergency backup".
One of the two iMacs safe boots/boots in a black screen.
When I boot via internet recovery, I can check the Fusion Drive and no issues are found.
When I run Apple hardware Terst, there are also no issues found.
I thought the most important thing is to backup files (my last Time Machine backup is some days old unfortunately).
I thought target drive mode would help.
At the moment I'm making a mini El Capitan installation on a 32GB USB card and will try starting from there.
Firewire Cable + 2 x Thunderbolt Adapters for Target Disk Mode?
