On Mar 31, 6:47 am, John Black <[email protected]> wrote:
> I had that same problem (Firewire TDM wouildn't work) on a Pismo I
> used to have, but it only happened when trying to connect to my PB G4
> Aluminum. The only work-around I found was to go in reverse and set
> the PB G4 Alumimum in TDM, which would then display that hard drive on
> the PIsmo desktop, allowing for file transfer.
I never had any problem on mine with the old hd, but I only have one
PB...
>
> In contrast, I found that there was no problem with the Pismo when
> using TDM with our desktop Mac (Digital Audio G4). I still wonder why
> it didn't work with the other PowerBook.
>
In my case it is definitely the slave mode settting. I didn't think
laptop drives had one but I looked up the drive online and found yes
there are jumper pins. On desktop systems I have, you can only access
the builtin ata main hd, not the dvd bus or a slave on the main bus
and not any connected to pci cards.
> John
>
> On Mar 30, 2009, at 9:37 PM, tortoise wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Mar 13, 8:17 pm, tortoise <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> hi, I just had an emergency with my hd failed on mypismo(g4 upgrade,
> >> 576RAM, tiger + jaguar + 9 + debian "etch" + 8.1 w/basiliskII under
> >> debian)
>
> >> i got an 80 gig seagate drive locally and luckily had mostly back up,
> >> and a backup drive to restore from so Tiger is running again within a
> >> day.
>
> >> but target firewire is broken - T key hold down results in it trying
> >> but shuts off just before target mode is reached (like it turns off
> >> instantly).
>
> > something weird turned up when I reinstalled Linux (actually two
> > things):
> > that system told me that the new drive was a slave (in their terms /
> > dev/hdb).
>
> > well I know that target mode on desktop only gives you the primary
> > master drive.
>
> > I didn't know that laptop drives could be set to slave ...
>
> > Also probably not related the drive although fast takes 5 or 10
> > seconds to wake up from sleep (that is when the machine is put in
> > sleep).
>
> > Linux also said something strange about "this drive has multiple
> > logical sectors per physical sector which we support *experimentally*.
> > It works ok though.
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