On 2/6/10 11:01 AM, Tom and Lisa Peters wrote:
I've got a dual USB 500 MHz iBook. Screen went dead. I can hear the hard drive when I start it up. I tried connecting it to an external monitor out of the video port, and nothing. I tried using Firewire from the iBook to a new MacBook, while starting the iBook while holding down the "T" key (the iBook beeps briefly when I start it up in that "target" mode), but I don't see the iBook HD on the MacBook. I read that in order for the Firewire method to work, one needs a recent version of the Firewire driver. Perhaps that's the problem (I don't know what version I have on the iBook, and since I can't "see" the machine, I can't tell.
Any drivers needed for Target Disk Mode are in the firmware since it doesn't boot the HD and only treats it as disk to access via FW. I can tell you this as a certainty, last night I started up an iBook in TDM that had now HD in it. I needed it to use as a FW DVD drive.
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