Re: Target drive not showing

2012-01-08 Thread Edward Treen
On 8 Jan 2012, at 04:36, Roger Faulkner wrote: Thanks for all the helpful hints. Thing that threw me was the same result on both firewire cables, seems they were both old, worn out and defective. A new cable solved the issue. The kid is reverse engineering his understanding of Mac OS history.

Re: Target drive not showing

2012-01-07 Thread Roger Faulkner
Thanks for all the helpful hints. Thing that threw me was the same result on both firewire cables, seems they were both old, worn out and defective. A new cable solved the issue. The kid is reverse engineering his understanding of Mac OS history. He grew up on X and is currently working 9. He's al

Re: Target drive not showing

2012-01-07 Thread Jonas Ulrich
You restarted the iBook with cable connected, holding the "T" key down and nothing shows on the G4, right? Here are some things to check: Make sure your firewire cable is good. Make sure all the computers see the firewire ports under the System Profiler. -Jonas -- You received this message bec

Target drive not showing

2012-01-06 Thread Roger Faulkner
I recently picked up a couple of old G4s for the 16-year old grandson to play with while back learning Apple OS. The Cube and M8493 Quicksilver (thanks to the group) are up and running 10.4.11. Neither shows target icon from either an G4 iBook or eMac. I've used target before but can't seem to now.