Hi Martin, A few things come to mind:
- Sometimes when I've had external HDs not show up unplugging and re-plugging the firewire cable has helped - worth a try. - Open disk utility on the iMac and see if it finds the the eMac's disk. - Run system profiler on the iMac (open "about this mac" and click "more info" or go to Applications/Utilities/System Profiler) and look under Hardware, Firewire, and see if the eMac's disk is showing up. Let us know what it shows. - Do you have any other firewire device you can try on both computers, in turn, just to check that the firewire ports ARE working on both machines. Another alternative, if you find you have problems with one or the other of the firewire ports, would be to connect the two computers with an ethernet cable (obviously the eMac would need to be normally booted, not in target mode) enable file sharing and transfer the files over the network connection. HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 22/2/09 11:48 AM, Martin Sulkowski at msulkow...@bbsat.com.au wrote: > hmmmm I 'm still not much further ...I can start the e=mac in > targetmode both as administrator as well as other user ,,,,,but still > I' can't see the firewire symbol on the I-mac...... do I have to > authorize the firewire port ???or is there something else I have to > do ? > > Everybit of help is greatly appreciated as I could finf only the same > advice on the net as given to me from wamug > > Thanks in advance Martin > On 21/02/2009, at 11:13 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> Hi Martin, >> >> To use firewire transfer, you need to have started one one the >> computers in >> Target mode - that way it just shows up as an external firewire >> drive on the >> other machine. >> >> For the way you describe, ie to use the iMac to do the work, you >> need to >> start the e-mac in target mode. To do that, just hold down the "T" key >> whilst you boot up or restart the eMac. It should startup with a blank >> screen apart from the firewire symbol drifting around the screen. >> >> You should then be able to see a new external drive (with the name >> of the >> eMac harddrive) on the iMac. >> >> HTH >> >> Cheers >> >> >> >> >> Neil >> -- >> Neil R. Houghton >> Albany, Western Australia >> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 >> Email: n...@possumology.com >> >> >> on 21/2/09 10:32 AM, Martin Sulkowski at msulkow...@bbsat.com.au >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Everyone >>> >>> I have an I-MC RUNNING 10.4.11 AND AN e- Mac running 10.4.11 as >>> well.I linked both machines with an firewire and try to transfer >>> my i- >>> Tunes library to the e-mac . >>> >>> Can't find the e-mac in FINDER window on I-Mac. >>> >>> How can I make sure that only the songs which are not on the e-mac >>> get imported. >>> >>> Thanks a lot Martin >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
