target disk mode

terry123 · July 7, 2003 10:22PM

My computer is beyond repair and needs to be erased and reinstalled. I however have data I need from the hard drive. I hopefully will be able to get the info off the errant drive with target disk mode. I have an ethernet cable that came with my ipod. Is this an acceptable ethernet cable or do I need something else? Thanks

paul · July 7, 2003 10:27PM

I assume you mean firewire cable, as thats what came with the iPod...

all you need is another FW mac and a cable... boot the borked mac while holding T... it should boot with a FW symbol... then hood the 2 computers up with the cable and it should register as a FW HD...

hth

terry123 · July 7, 2003 10:32PM

Paul, Yes i intended to say firewire cable that came with ipod. I just hope my data is available. Thanks again. To see the woes that brought me to this point, check out the crash and burn post.

terry123 · July 7, 2003 10:48PM

Sorry to nit pick but the apple hardware page say the firewire cable that comes with the ipod is a 4-6 pin cable. the support page says that target disk mode requires a 6-6 pin cable. Am I reading too much into this? should the ipod firewire cable still work?

paul · July 7, 2003 10:56PM

all iPods come with 6pin-6pin cables (you can tell because they look the same)

the new iPods (and old PC iPods) also come with a 4pin-6pin adapter that you attach to the 6-6 cable... it should work fine

terry123 · July 7, 2003 11:00PM

That make sense. I was wondering what the heck that adapter was for.

paul · July 7, 2003 11:02PM

in your case (assuming you don't have a PC) it would work great to attach a DV camera to your mac

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