[UniMacTech] New MacBooks and Firewire

[Justin Young]

Hi David,

You can boot from an external USB drive and image that way. Sadly you  
will need to replace your Firewire only drives, or at least the cases.  
The Target Disk mode issue will be when you need to mount a Macbook as  
a drive on another Mac. Not sure if that works over USB, in fact I'm  
pretty sure you can't.


Justin Young
Computer Facility
School of Medicine & Health Sciences
University of Otago, Wellington
New Zealand
ph: (04) 385 5541 ext 5674
justin.young at otago.ac.nz
www.wnmeds.ac.nz

On 12/11/2008, at 11:54 AM, David Wikeley wrote:

> Hi all,
>    Before we purchase some new MacBooks, what are others doing about  
> the
> lack of a Firewire port on the new MacBooks?
>
> How does Target Disk Mode work, we use this mode on a daily basis to  
> set-up
> new MacBooks. We boot off a system on the external drive and clone a  
> system
> to the new computer, very quick.
>
> Does this mean that all our external  Firewire drives (no USB ports)  
> will
> just sit on the shelves to gather dust. Is there a third party USB to
> Firewire adapter we can use.
>
> --
> David Wikeley
> IT Manager
> Faculty of Health Science
> University of Tasmania
> 43 Collins Street
> Hobart, Tasmania.
> T: 03 62264751
> W: www.healthsci.utas.edu.au/
>
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