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Access FireWire drives connected to a shut-down G5
Authored by: alblue on Jun 10, '05 06:11:41PM

This isn't really surprising. FireWire is a bus model, so anything plugged into the bus can talk to anything else on the bus.

Whilst obviously you won't be able to see the G5's drives, any powered-on drives *will* be seen by the firewire, since it's basically the same circuit.

It's as likely as being surprised that you can see another computer on a network if one plugged into your local hub happens to be turned off...

In an unrelated hint, if you boot the Mac into Target mode, you can not only see its hard drives, but also its CD/DVD roms that are mounted. Quite useful if you've only got one DVD drive but want to install Tiger onto a different Mac ...



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optical drive via target disk, not all machines
Authored by: saint.duo on Jun 10, '05 10:35:08PM

Not all machines' optical drives can be accessed via target disk mode.

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Allows to circumvent the DVD region codes
Authored by: hamarkus on Jun 12, '05 01:44:03PM

This seems to allow to circumvent the DVD region codes. A DVD inserted into a Powermac did not play because the region code was not set yet (and without an Admin password I could not set it), booted in Target disk mode the DVD drive did not ask for any region codes.



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