Hi all. Just thought I'd post this weird thing that happened to me over the weekend and solicit ideas as to the cause.
I was home updating my parent's eMac with software and such and decided that I might as well put the eMac into target disk mode. I turned off the eMac and plugged a firewire cable from the eMac into the powered-up TiBook. As soon as I plugged in the firewire cable, my TiBook died! No warning, just bamb! Black screen. The eMac was off and never turned on!
Confused by the shutdown, I disconnected the firewire cable and pushed the power button on the PB...nothing!! OMG. I thought I fried something.
I plugged the PB into the power adapter and tried the power button again....this time success. Of course the grey screen was on for a while as it did the fsck after improper shutdown. Once powered up, everything seemed fine. The date and time was all whacked out, but other than that no problem. I shut down and put the TiBook into target mode and did the transfers that way without a hitch.
Any idea why plugging in the firewire cable from a powered down eMac crashed my PB??
I've done target disk mode many, many times between powerbooks and desktops with no particular problem. This was the first time with the eMac, though. Both machines were running 10.2.6
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