Re: [MLUG] Now less urgent hardware problem...

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Oops... guess I should have read all the posts... even the ones with 
different subject lines...   sorry for the added email traffic.  My 
suggestion is now redundant. (as am I, but that's another matter).

Jonathan King wrote:

>Thanks for the many helpful suggestions which I will certainly strive
>to check out concerning my non-booting dual G4.  Interestingly enough,
>my butt (and my butt head) got saved once again by the miraculous
>intervention of target disk mode.  YES!  I'm copying every last
>freaking user file off the not-very-happy Powermac onto the
>eager-to-please eMac as we speak!  No muss, no fuss, no messing around
>with cables.  This should have been the second thing I tried.  Oh
>well...
>
>(What is target disk mode?  Modern Macs can boot into firewire
>driveness if you press "T" while booting even when they're only
>semi-functional, which makes file recovery and transfer about 50
>million times easier than it used to be.  Evidently, Windows XP may
>have something similar, but possibly not quite as smooth.
>
>OK, so I think my success here and other stuff rules out:
>
>video card failure (yeah, some macs won't boot if this doesn't work,
>but I have video)
>hard drive failure (working fine now)
>power supply failure (shouldn't be able to spin the drive this well, right?)
>?controller failure (I can use the hard drive as a firewire device, so
>I'm guessing the controller is okay?
>
>I'm not sure what else, though.  Target disk mode is apparently quite
>low level, so it might be that I still have some serious logic board
>problem.  Or it might just be that the mac is confused about what it's
>proper boot device is.  I guess I can run a drive utility on it to see
>if that's an issue.  (Now how that would get messed up...I'm not
>really sure.  Especially the part where it doesn't boot from CD.)
>
>In any case, target disk mode saved me.  I only lost 5 hours (oog).
>
>jking
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