luke.mccormick Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 (edited) I've got a client whose mac puked, the monitor anyway and because of apple's rediculous engineering job I can't get any video. The system itself I believe is running properly, if there is no way for me to get the system into a working target mode is there a way i can remove the hard drive, put it in another box and mount the file system either using a win32 app or a live linux disc? I believe this unit was the predecessor to the new mac mini, its not that small, but its cube shaped inside of a clear plastic "stand" case, all the cables plug in on the bottom, it has 2 firewire, 2 usb, 1 dvi, 1 vga, modem, ethernet if that helps.any suggestions appreciated, thanks.Heres a link to what the cube actually is..not sure of the exact specs for this specific unit tho...:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube Edited May 18, 2007 by luke.mccormick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 I've always wanted a G4 Cube... There are several programs that can do this:TransMacMacDriveI'm not 100% sure if Linux supports the HFS and HFS+ file systems. You could give it a shot and see what happens.Also... If you have access to any other Mac (laptop, G3, G4, G5, etc... ANYTHING) that has a firewire port on it, you can just plug in a firewire cable to the Cube and the other end of it into the other Mac, turn on the Cube and hold down T. After a few seconds, it should enable Disk Mode and you will be able to access the disk on the other computer. This might actually work with a PC, although I haven't tried it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabregreen Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 (edited) The cube g4 is a sweet machine, at least it was when it came out. Loved the design. What do you mean you can't get video out of it ? You can get an ADC to vga dongle/extractor.You can use target disk mode on any machine that has a firewire port, 6 pin to 6 pin; windows or mac. Use macdrive to mount the drive correctly though so you can read it at least. Edited May 18, 2007 by sabregreen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocent Devil Posted June 8, 2007 Share Posted June 8, 2007 u can mount and read HFS and HFS+ fs in new linux distosi did it with Ubunut 7.04, u can have Read support, i m not sure abt write support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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