Migration Assistant wont recognize old mac

I have a new 20" intel imac and I have connected my old ibook G3 to the new imac and booted the ibook into firewire target disk mode. The firewire symbol appears but the imac doesn't recognize it. Also, I will sometimes get an error message that says the imac can't recognize my old mac. I tried this with a new 17" white intel imac and it worked.
any ideas???

I would suggest that you first repair the drive and permissions on the iBook:
Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now shutdown the computer for a couple of minutes and then restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (4.0 for Tiger) and/or TechTool Pro (4.5.2 for Tiger) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
Be sure you do the setup as Apple suggests:
Turn off both computers. Connect a Firewire cable between the two. In your case be sure you use only the Firewire 400 ports. First, boot the iBook into TDM and wait until the TDM screen appears. Then boot the iMac normally. After startup the iBook's drive should appear on the iMac's Desktop.

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