Using Laptop as Firewire Drive

[bodhisatva]

I have a MacBook Pro laptop with Tiger (OSX 10.4.5). I can boot it as a firewire drive, but my desktop which has OSX 10.3.9 doesn't display the laptop drive even though they are connected by a firewire cable. System Profiler on the desktop shows the laptop drive, but not the Finder. Anyone have any ideas about why this isn't working?

 

[inflexion]

you tried rebooting both machines?

 

[bodhisatva]

Using Laptop as Firewire drive

you tried rebooting both machines?

I rebooted both machines and got the following message on the desktop:

"You have insteretd a disk containing no volumes that Mac OSX can read. To continue with the disk inserted click ignore."

The error box had three buttons: ignore...eject...initialize

Any further thoughts?

 

[quicksilver]

I believe I read that you can TDM from PPC Mac to PPC Mac, and an Intel Mac will see a PPC Mac TDM, but a PPC won't see an Intel.

I'm sure i will be corrected if I'm wrong, but I think i read it on the Apple Support website.

 

[JunMacTech]

I believe I read that you can TDM from PPC Mac to PPC Mac, and an Intel Mac will see a PPC Mac TDM, but a PPC won't see an Intel.

I'm sure i will be corrected if I'm wrong, but I think i read it on the Apple Support website.

Im pretty sure you are correct on that.

Edit: Just tested, macbook pro in TDM was successfully detected and accessed via firewire connection on an iMac G4. So that shoots that theory.

Edit^2: Have you tried another firewire cable?

 

[macAttack]

why would what processor it has have anythign to do with it? its the hard drive...maybe the drive is formatted weird? probably not...can you see it in disk utility?