Should have probably mentioned that this is a G3 iMac, does that fix
anything pertaining to my question?

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Clark Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3/29/10 6:31 PM, Christian Wacker wrote:
>>
>> Well, as most of you probably forgot, I upgraded the systemboard in my
>> G3 from 350 to 400mhz, and added the firewire package that came along
>> for the ride.
>> Now i've got a conundrum.
>> It won't boot into target disk mode.
>> I hold down "T" and it'll get to the point where it's supposed to go
>> to target disk mode, and restart.
>> Is there some reason that the G3 350mhz chassis won't let it go to
>> target disk mode, or is it just a screwed up board?
>
> PowerMac G3s (B&W) do not support FireWire Target Disk Mode.  They don't
> support FireWire booting either.
>
> AFAIK this is the only machine that has FW that doesn't support either of
> those features.  I believe there is one or more machine that didn't support
> them until a firmware update was released but I don't recall what
> machine(s).
>
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