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I have a G4 and a beige G3 with a G4 upgrade card. I have a firewire port on the G3 running to a FW Hard Drive, running to a FW CD-RW, with a free FW port on the CD-RW. If I run a FW cord from the G4 to the G3, can I transfer files back and forth like it were a network or another HD in the FW chain?
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[ 07-24-2002: Message edited by: alcimedes ]</p>
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[ 07-24-2002: Message edited by: alcimedes ]</p>
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I've no experience daisy-chaining firewire devices so I don't know if that will work. If it does, the G4 disk should show up on the desktop of the G3.
however, i have done this before, except for the target disk mode part.
at this point i have 5 or 6 drives all chained together and working just fine.
the nicest thing about firewire is that you don't need a computer to be between the two devices for them to talk to eachother. the signal should travel between all the drives with no trouble.
now off to the Genius bar.