Powerbooks in Firewire mode

2004-12-13 Thread Bruce Richardson
I want to clone the disk in one albook onto another. I'd like to do this by putting both the macs into Firewire mode and using a third laptop (A Vaio running 2.6, fwiw) to read from one disk and write to the other. When I connect a mac in firewire mode to the Vaio, two "scsi" disks appear: a smal

Re: Powerbooks in Firewire mode

2004-12-15 Thread Michael Schmitz
> When I connect a mac in firewire mode to the Vaio, two "scsi" disks > appear: a small one with 3 partitions and a large (80G) one with 10. > The second one is obviously the actual hard disk but I'm curious to know > > a) If I connect two macs, can I just read from the second scsi > de

Re: Powerbooks in Firewire mode

2004-12-15 Thread Cedric Pradalier
According to Michael Schmitz, on Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:40:30 +0100 (CET), >> When I connect a mac in firewire mode to the Vaio, two "scsi" disks >> appear: a small one with 3 partitions and a large (80G) one with 10. >> The second one is obviously the actual hard disk but I'm curious to know >> >>

Re: Powerbooks in Firewire mode

2004-12-16 Thread Michael Schmitz
> >>a) If I connect two macs, can I just read from the second scsi > >>device from the first mac and write to the second scsi device > >>from the second mac? > > > >That's the plan. You won't be able to do a raw copy (image copy of the > >whole disk or single partitions) that way, just

Re: Powerbooks in Firewire mode

2004-12-16 Thread Cedric Pradalier
According to Michael Schmitz, on Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:30:01 +0100 (CET), >> >> a) If I connect two macs, can I just read from the second scsi >> >> device from the first mac and write to the second scsi device >> >> from the second mac? >> > >> >That's the plan. You won't be able to do a raw

Re: Powerbooks in Firewire mode

2004-12-16 Thread Graham Wilson
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:08:18PM +1100, Cedric Pradalier wrote: > The funny thing is that the firewire mode is one of the last thing > that standed when my ibook broke its motherboard (second time)... And > it was stable enough to backup ~10Go. I've always wondered whether or not the FireWire ta