Target Disk Mode on new MacBook Air - where to find Thunderbolt to Firewire cable?

I use a MacPro desktop with a RAID set-up at home, and will use the new MacBook Air on the road. I need to use Target Disk Mode when I return home to sync my Macs. The MacPro only has Firewire 400/800; the new Air only Thunderbolt. Does anyone know how to find a Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter, please?

I, too, would like a TB<->FW adapter, but I'll wager that for 99% of those purchasing a new MBA it is not an issue let alone a serious ommission.
For the rest of 'us' (the remaining 1%) Sonnet has an adapter listed with info due 'later this summer' as to pricing/availability so as Waymen has already stated it may be a while before we see one.
In the meantime, I'll use a combination of USB2 drives (one of my dozen or so USB2 drives--120GB to 1TB--I have lying around), an Ethernet cable, SuperDrive, or AirDrop. Not as convenient but a usable work around.

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Welcome to Apple Support Communities
iWork applications (Numbers, Pages and Keynote) do not come preinstalled. Instead, you have to download them from the Mac App Store, so open the Mac App Store, choose Purchases at the top and you should see iMovie, iPhoto, GarageBand, Numbers, Keynote and Pages as waiting to be accepted, so accept them. Note that you need OS X Mavericks.
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Did all the reset nvram/pram, tried to start up in safe mode with no luck. So I booted up in Target Disk Mode to my Intel Macbook, ran disk utility, repaired a couple errors, but the hard drive wont mount. It says "try running disk repair and mount again."
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I followed the steps in the article you attached to your reply and it worked perfectly. I should add that I followed exactly these steps previously EXCEPT that I had a portable 2 Tb USB 3.0 external drive attached to my 2014 MacBook Pro previously, as my new MacBook Pro has a much smaller capacity than my old 2007 MacBook. But today I didn't attach the external drive and the 2007 MacBook's HDD appeared on the 2014 MacBook Pro's desktop as promised. I don't know if or why the external drive should make a difference; I'm just very pleased it worked!
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I am trying to set up two macs to run off of the same monitors/keyboard/mouse/etc. I know about KVMs, but they are too expensive for my current setup.
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I would need to access the files, but also run the applications from the Mac Pro on the MacBook Pro.
Would such a setup work? Would I have to reboot each time I wanted to switch machines? Would there be a significant lag in the Mac Pro's performance?
Any tips or links to articles/etc. would be appreciated.
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Hi Niel,
Thanks for the speedy response.
I should have clarified that I know that I can access the drive like a firewire drive. I'm more curious as to whether I can either:
1. use it's applications in target disk mode (based on your answer -- No, unless all the necessary system components are identical between the two computers).
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cindy37 wrote:
I just bought a new MacBook Air and am moving to Italy. Where to I find correct power cord for Europe outlets?
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Hi:
We have a several year old iMac (2.66 GHz Intel Core i5 running OS 10.9.4). I have a much older (2001) 867 MHz G4 Mac. I'd like to recycle the latter (which I haven't used in many years), but before doing so I want to make sure the internal disks are wiped clean.
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Bottom-line, the disk is shown in target mode in Disk Utility, but I cannot seem to access it to Secure Erase it.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

Thanks to both of you for your help with this interesting problem!
After secure erasing the internal drive on the G4 using a copy of Disk Utility on a CD as described above, the internal drive on the G4 DOES mount on my Mavericks iMac. Don’t know why erasing it changed things, but it did.
So then I ran the command lines in Terminal you suggested:
[HomeG4-2:~] MyUID% sudo chflags -R nouchg/Volumes/IntSml
usage: chflags [-fhv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] flags file ...
[HomeG4-2:~] MyUID%
[HomeG4-2:~] MyUID% sudo chmod -R 755/Volumes/IntSml
usage: chmod [-fhv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-a | +a | =a [i][# [ n]]] mode|entry file ...
chmod [-fhv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-E | -C | -N | -i | -I] file ...
[HomeG4-2:~] MyUID%
And then I ran diskutil list as you suggested:
[HomeG4-2:~] MyUID% diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS iMac HD               959.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         40.0 GB    disk0s4
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *122.9 GB   disk1
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         32.3 KB    disk1s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS IntSml                  122.8 GB   disk1s3
[HomeG4-2:~] MyUID%
But despite all this, even though the disk now mounts, all options within DiskUtility for Erase are greyed out.
Anyways, it was an interesting learning experience and I appreciate your interest.
And just in case anyone else is reading this, if you google apple computer recycling program one gets a lot of options for recycling. Since I figured this old PPC would have very little worth, I used http://oem.srsapp.com/ApplePoweredBysims/default.aspx where they give you a shipping label and you can send your old box for green recycling and keep toxic metals etc out of the landfill.
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Do Intel Macs even have the ability to boot into actual firewire target disk mode?
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