on 31/10/05 14:02, Victoria Brandon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Oct 30, 2005, at 2:52 PM, Andrew in Ann Arbor wrote: > >> It works just like "firewire disk mode" on later powerbooks. > > A light may have dawned (!) -- if I get a firewire card for my Lombard > can I connect it to my B&W G3 (both running Panther), and transfer > files that way? For some reason that I don't understand the ethernet > connection between these two computers stopped working a few weeks ago, > and nobody on either this list or the G-List has been able to point > me in the right direction to get it going again. > > There seem to be a lot of these cards on eBay for not much money, and > some of the descriptions specify that they'll work on a Mac, but is the > Lombard "Cardbus 2 compatible"?
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