> Has anyone connected a MAC and a PC via Firewire?
> If so, can you please tell me how to get this going.
Summarising previous mails I would like to convey this:
1. iBooks and probably iMacs and the TiBook can be brought into target mode
to allow access of their internal harddisc. This will probably an exclusive
mode and thus prevent the use of the target machine at all until the
controlling computer releases the connection.
2. The target mode would be very helpful to e.g. mirror the harddrive(s ?)
and copy files to or from it. This could be done via Ethernet too,
especially if one has a 100 base-T connection.
3. I would not like to connect a Mac in target mode to any other system,
especially if it is my only 'hot' machine. It is very likely that Windoze
will write file to the Mac drive and will also ask to modify the disc
signature and other things like this. I write this only because of my very
bad experiences with a Rayo IDE-FW/USB disc, connected to my Mac (with
Crescendo G3 via FW/USB PCI card) as well as to a Win2000 PEECEE. Windoze
writes a file into each directory for storage of window appearance settings
and MacOS does the same and leaves several files and folders in each folder,
which was opened. I writes also two desktop files and tries to index the
Windoze drive too.
4. Fact is: at the first connection and attempt to view folders on a remote
harddisc either operating system leaves its crap on the target disc and
causes a mess of unneeded files in the other file structure.
5. Programs like Dave make the bad things worse and modify automatically
CRLF and Return in textfiles and convert also the resource and data forks of
Mac files. I would recommend to NOT install and run Dave except on a
dedicated file server with well defined and separated Mac and Windoze access
points. The skilled power user will be able to keep up the possible damage
but the normal user simply looses data (I've been thru this just two days
ago... :-(
6. Another point on mounting foreign file systems: The left crap might
render the medium unusable. Example: A CF-card accessed in a USB card reader
on a Mac will receive the Finder.dat et.al. files and is after that not
useable in a Jenoptik JD350 digital camera. As soon as all Mac specific
files are deleted (on a Windoze machine) the card can be used in that
specific camera.
Marco
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