According to Michael Schmitz, on Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:40:30 +0100 (CET), >> When I connect a mac in firewire mode to the Vaio, two "scsi" disks >> appear: a small one with 3 partitions and a large (80G) one with 10. >> The second one is obviously the actual hard disk but I'm curious to know >> >> a) If I connect two macs, can I just read from the second scsi >> device from the first mac and write to the second scsi device >> from the second mac? > >That's the plan. You won't be able to do a raw copy (image copy of the >whole disk or single partitions) that way, just acces the filesystem as >normally. I'm pretty sure 'filesystem' is limited to what OF knows about, >so no Linux ext2/ext3 copying. >
Actually, I used the firewire mode for a last minute backup and my ibook was exactly seen as any firewire disk. I could access all the partition (hfs, ufs or ext2/3) and mount them. In this mode, the ibook is a kind of big USB key ;) -- Cedric Pradalier
