[muglo] Re: Firewire Transfer of Files

, as it really comes down to how much info you wish to transfer and 
what facilities you have without making a large financial investment!!

Paul

On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 01:19 PM, Bob McDaniel wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion, Eric. Unfortunately it seems that the 
> Performa
> 6400/200 does not have a 10BaseT  connection
> <http://www.sou.edu/studentcomputing/dialinsetup/macether.html>. And I 
> have
> since learned from Mostly Digital (new name!) that the so-called 
> Target Disk
> Mode with Firewire does not work with the 6400/200 (with OrangeLink
> USB/Firewire PCI board).
>
> While it would have been more convenient to have networked the 6400 
> and eMac, I
> am now considering a USB Zip drive which can be connected to the 6400 
> for
> download then to the eMac for upload, and vice versa.
>
> But, since I have recently had to remove the internal modem in the 
> 6400 and
> switch to an external one, can I now install a 10BaseT card in the
> communication slot and use your suggestion?
>
> Bob
>
>
> Eric D wrote:
>
>> Save yourself the risk of screwing things up with FireWire (don't 
>> know if
>> it's dangerous at all)! Use a "cross-over" ethernet cable and network 
>> the
>> computers with 10BaseT ethernet (since the 6400 only does 10BaseT). 
>> It's not
>> as fast as FireWire but unless you're transferring multi-gigabyte 
>> files on a
>> regular basis it's perfectly fine.
>>
>>
>>> I have a Performa 6400/200 with an Orangelink+ Firewire+USB PCI board
>>> installed. Will that board enable me o transfer files from my 
>>> Performa
>>> via a Firewire cable linking its Firewire port to the Firewire port 
>>> of
>>> an eMac (1GHz/Superdrive model)?
>>> What concerns me is that the Orangelink Firewire port may not be
>>> considered "built-in", i.e. factory installed.
>>> Is that really an issue?
>>> Thanks for your advice.
>>> Bob
>
>
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