I have just received one of these. Previously, I have reached for the screwdrivers and pulled the drive out. But I want to have a try with TDM for the first time and want to check a couple of things.
Is it correct that TDM puts the drive into Read Only status? or is there another command?
For belt and braces, is there a writeblocker out there for firewire devices?
Thanks for any advice
It won't be read only. I assume that you are hooking it up to another Mac? If so you need to (re)move the diskarbitationd.plist file
The suggested commands for Tiger on your analysis machine are
sudo cp /etc/mach_init.d/diskarbitrationd.plist /Backup/
sudo rm /etc/mach_init.d/diskarbitrationd.plist
These copy the disk arbitration file to a safe location and then deletes the one that is read by the kernel on boot.
A good guide can be found here http//
I think there are some firewire blockers on the Blackbag Technologies site.
Another link regarding FWTDM -
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