On Jan 27, 2010, at 2:06 PM, John Callahan wrote:
Would like to know if its necessary to unplug cable from port on both computers when not in Target mode. Instructions say to drag icon to trash, restart target computer and unplug cable. I have been leaving firewire cable plugged in on both computers with seemingly no ill effects.
It's not a problem in hardware, Firewire is peer to peer, there is no master. It could be a problem in software if you attached two computers and a harddisk together. I don't know what protection there is against both computers attempting to mount the one harddisk. But doing so would be bad AFAIK as the OS doesn't know there is another computer accessing the drive and they could both attempt to write different files to the same location. Two (or more) computers hooked together with nothing else isn't a problem, you can do this to setup Firewire networking.
If you just have the two computers connected together it's not a problem. I wouldn't do it long term as you may forget and hook up a harddisk.
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