Problem Migrating Data Via Firewire

I am trying to transfer data from G4 desktop to a Intel iMac. The G4 desktop has 2 internal drives and has 10.4.10 installed. When I boot up the G5 iMac for the initial setup, I choose the option to migrate my information from another Mac. I follow all the steps connecting the systems with a firewire cable and reboot the older Mac while holding down the T key. The older Mac reboots and shows the Target Disk Mode icon, but the G5 iMac still is unable to see it and cannot get past the 'waiting for your old mac to restart stage'.
I did disconnect the second drive thinking that there may be a conflict that there was two drives on the G4 desktop, but this did not solve the problem.
Any suggestions on a fix would be appreciated.

Make sure that the remaining Hard drive is at the front of the ATA cable. And also check that the cable is good and that firewire ports on the G4 are active. If not shut own the machine,disconnect the cable, let it cool down, do a PRAM Reset on startup, then go to Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility and Repair Permissions on the startup volume.
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