Automatic daisy chaining?

[eric2006]

This was really weird, and I'm not exactly sure if it's normal or not, but someone probably knows..
So, I had an iMac hooked up to my powermac via firewire, trying to get the networking thing to work. Somehow, the firewire drive connected to my powermac showed up on the iMac (and not the powermac). I thought that the computer just had the icon of the drive because it didn't take the icon off the last time I had the drive directly connected to that computer. Well, I turned the drive off and on to get it to hook up to my powermac. To my surprise, the iMac told me that I had just unplugged a drive. When I turned the drive back on, it connected to the powermac like normal. Finder was crashed on the powermac when the drive showed up on the iMac

Is this normal?

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

If you're using FireWire Target Disk mode, then you should not have any other FireWire devices connected when you do this:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583

If you're using FireWire networking, then what you're seeing is normal:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300742

The workaround is to either disconnect all other FireWire devices, or, if you've got more than one FireWire bus (e.g., you've got a PCI FireWire card for the networking part and the internal FireWire bus for the devices) then separate the "networked" portion of the FireWire bus from the "devices" portion of the FireWire bus.

 

[eric2006]

Oh, well I only have built in firewire, so thats my problem. Well, the iMac can use airport..