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Save a bit of time when using target disk mode
Authored by: jiclark on Sep 14, '05 01:46:43PM

From my experience, just yesterday, with the exact set of circumstances as mentioned in the hint, the single press of the power button no longer works if you've left the machine in TDM and moved the FW cable around to use it on another regularly booted machine. You have to press *and hold* the power button to get it to shutdown. I don't think it causes issues though, since nothing on the disk was loaded into RAM; it was really performing exactly like an external FW drive, and you'd never give a second thought to powering down one of those with its switch.

So to clarify: if you use TDM as recommended (hook up FW cable to two machines [one can stay booted], then start up the other machine with T held down), you can indeed shut down the TDM machine by just a single press of the power button if you've ejected it from the other machine's desktop first. But, if you do as described in the this hint (as above, but then disconnect the FW cable and hook it up to a different machine to do more transfers to/from the TDM machine, repeat, etc...) you will have to press and hold the power button for at least 4 seconds to get the TDM machine to shut down when you're done.

Hope that clears this up!



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