• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  How robust is using target disk mode to access drives on another Mac?

  Posted by Jerry Hofmann on October 31, 2006 at 2:09 pm

  Let’s say you’ve just bought a new Mac Pro, and have a working G5 with a fibre array attached, as well as PCI x capture card. Could you reliably use the G5 to capture with, then restart it in target disk mode connected to the Mac Pro, and use the array attached to the G5 to playback media, using the Mac Pro for the edit? I’ve not tried this, but if it worked, you’d save the money rebuying cards for the Mac Pro… right? Course this means having to have both macs running, but could save a substantial amount of money…

  Anybody tried this?

  Jerry

  Apple Certified Trainer

  Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here

  Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D

  Paul Dickin replied 19 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jerry Hofmann

  October 31, 2006 at 2:10 pm

  Right?

  Jerry

  Apple Certified Trainer

  Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here

  Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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  Jeff Carpenter

  October 31, 2006 at 2:29 pm

  As far as I am aware, using Target Disk Mode is no different than having any other firewire400 drive.

  I haven’t used it enough to say for sure, but I’ve never heard otherwise.
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  Paul Dickin

  October 31, 2006 at 2:38 pm

  Hi
  Only the 2 inbuilt SATA drives on a G5 Dual 2GHz (revB) show up when linking to it in Target mode.
  The three other SATA drives connected to a Sonnet PCI-X card don’t show up.

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