MacOS Target Disk Mode cable recommendations
Hi all, I have a Mac that I want to connect a Raspberry Pi Model 3 to via Target Disk Mode.
I want to access the drive from the Pi to help a family member recover a forgotten FileVault key.
The Pi has USB-A ports, while the Mac has USB-A, USB-B, and Thunderbolt (either version 1 or 2 I'm not sure) ports.
What's the cheapest way to connect the two for TDM? Ideally I won't spend too much money on cables, but I know that Apple stuff is marked up by a lot.
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so you have a drive on your mac that you want to be able to access in your pi
?
Yeah
I think you need a USB-to-SATA/IDE
@eggMcMan I don't think it's possible the way you described
You will probably need to take the drive out of the Mac
Raspberry Pi 3 only has USB-A host ports
However with another Mac u can do the way u described
I realized that my laptop has a USB-C port. I (hypothetically) can mount the output from the port into a VirtualBox Linux VM from which I can use my Linux-specific tooling to operate on the drive. My Linux VM unfortunately can't recognize that the Mac's drive is a new partition however.
I tried HFS+ on my Windows machine to mount it that way, but the program doesn't recognize the MacOS volume as well.
yeah I think this will be the easiest way