What about Firewire target disk mode? If you start your iMac in target disk mode, will it be accessible to a PC as an external firewire hard drive? I suppose you'd need software on the PC to read an HFS+ formatted disk though.
Another type of removable media I've used to share largeish files between a Mac and PC was a Sandisk USB Compact Flash card reader. I just used the 8MB card that came with my camera, but if you have a newer camera you probably have a bigger card. Filling a CD 8 MB at a time would be tedious. > An alternative to networking is to swap floppies (you would have to buy an USB > floppy drive for the iMac), or to exchange Zip disks if each had a Zip drive. > Now, if that Dell has a USB port, you could use the same Zip drive on both > machines. >> Hmm... I am still running 9.2.2 on the iMac. >>> If OS 9, no. In OS X 10.1-10.2, yes. In fact, getting 10.2 would make it >>> extremely easy to copy data to and from the iMac and laptop - 10.2 lets you >>> browse Windows networks now. >>>> My son's college issues Dell laptops to all students. The laptops include >>>> CD-RW drives and are running Windows 2000. My question is: Can I network my >>>> iMac 400 to the Dell and burn data CDs (as backups) from the iMac to the >>>> laptop? -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
