Target Disk Mode is indeed an awesome feature of every Mac with Firewire since ~2000.
Someone should hack together a "USB Target Disk Mode" live-CD based on Linux or something. Surely it's possible.
Or not? I'm not to familiar with the USB protocol, but isn't there a distinction between hosts and devices, hence the asymmetry of USB cables? (unlike Firewire)
It would be trivial to beat the 400/480/800mbit of FW/USB/FW800 with a LiveCD, and all of the pieces are more or less already there. Use the Gig-E wired ethernet connection.
Someone should hack together a "USB Target Disk Mode" live-CD based on Linux or something. Surely it's possible.
Or not? I'm not to familiar with the USB protocol, but isn't there a distinction between hosts and devices, hence the asymmetry of USB cables? (unlike Firewire)