No Target Disc Mode in new mac books? ?

[California]

Did I miss this completely? There is NO target disc mode to boot up your new al macbook into?

Tried holding down the T key to USB the mac book into another computer (last revision PMG5) and the macbook does NOT boot into Target Disk Mode?

No firewire; fine. But I thought we could boot up in TDM to transfer files through USB to other Macs?

Am I missing something?

 

[JediMeister]

No, you're not missing anything...Target Disk Mode has been exclusively possible with a FireWire connection, I have never heard of anyone doing a migration through USB. Try these alternatives to migrating through Target Disk Mode: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1291

 

[hmai18]

Network migration or from a Time Machine backup are your only alternatives now.

 

[HLdan]

Yeah, no jokes but it's called "Firewire Target Disk Mode", henceforth it only works through Firewire. Sadly it's slowing disappearing from the Mac line but oh well, you have to move on.

 

[MacHappytjg]

its ethernet NOW or just like yea network... which i find much slower... anyone else?

 

[molala]

Yeah, no jokes but it's called "Firewire Target Disk Mode", henceforth it only works through Firewire.

Not exactly. It's been around before firewire, works with SCSI - which was replaced with firewire around 2000. I hope Apple doesn't entirely kill target disk mode if they decide to abandon firewire.