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Save a bit of time when using target disk mode
Authored by: kaih on Aug 02, '05 09:42:17PM

FWIW, I'm Apple certified, work for an Apple service centre and all that jazz...
I've always powered machines up, in target disk mode, without having the FireWire cables plugged in, and also used a single machine as a FireWire disk on multiple machines, without power-cycling or rebooting it in between, quite a number of times...
I can't see any reason whatsoever why it would cause damage, and I have never damaged anything doing it this way for years, however I can't guarantee that it will be like this for *you*
I believe that the reason Apple state that the machines have to be connected first is because if there's no monitor on the FireWire Target machine, you can see when to stop holding down the T key by the icon(s) appearing on the host machine...

Cheers,
Kai

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