From: Dana Sibera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>It's worth noting that if you have two machines that both have Firewire on them that are in relatively close proximity to each other, you can achieve VASTLY faster transfer speeds with a FW cable and "FW Target Disk Mode". I don't have the KnowledgeBase article bookmarked, but it's very straightforward:
Just a note I found which may help some others in the future.
I have an eMac 1GHz and iMac 400, and tonight felt a good time to backup important stuff, and as I didn't have a crossover cable at all, transferring 8GB over my 10baseT network wasn't looking to be much fun.
However!
I didn't know until taking a look at the kbase article at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42717 that now the newer eMacs and some iMacs have autosensing for crossover/straight through cables. Not only that, quite a few other macs do now too.
1. Connect two macs via firewire.
2. Restart one of them, holding down the T key.
3. After a short time, the hard drive of the restarted Mac will show up on the other Mac.
4. Drag and copy files at amazing speeds.
5. IMPORTANT: when finished, unmount the mounted "guest" HD by dragging it to the trash BEFORE disconnecting the machines!
_Chas_
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