
Things I tried: connecting a camcorder and opening iMovie to confirm that the iMac Firewire port was functioning (it was) zapping PRAM on both the new and old Macs swapping out the Firewire cable." "I purchased a new 24" 2.4GHz iMac on Saturday, and could not connect to a Mac G4 533Mhz DP machine in Target Disk Mode.Transfers that occur over a FireWire target disk mode connection (particularly system migrations) fail part-way through.Other Macs are not recognized at all when connected via FireWire target disk mode to the new iMacs.

FireWire problems: Target disk mode and others We've received a surprisingly high number of reports indicating significant issues with the newly released Mid-2007 iMacs and FireWire target disk mode.
