Target Disk Mode from a 2009 MBP - 2012 MB Air

Hi all,
Recently my 2009 MBP hardrive crapped out on me with a 'diskos2 I/O' error. However, when I go into the Lion Recovery mode and use the disk utility, it registers that the internal harddrive is 'fine' when I use repair. I went ahead and picked up a new Macbook Air, figuring the SSD was better for all the travelling my mac does. But now I want to try and recover some of the data on that old MBP. So the two questions I have are: Will 'Target Disk Mode' work with a firewire 800-usb (or thunderbolt?) adaptor cable? If not, is there another way to possibly recover this data?
Thanks

Maybe it will, maybe it won't. I'm guessing the firmware in the guts of the adapter will play a large role in the aye or nay.
An alternate route would be getting the HDD outta the corpse, putting it in an external USB case and using that instead.

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