On Jul 13, 2005, at 1:06 AM, Harry Freeman wrote:
A week later, Apple acknowledged a very serious "Panther" FireWire
bug that that the company blamed on an Oxford 922 bridge device
popular with drive manufacturers. Just connecting a FireWire 800
drive to a Mac running "Panther" can ruin the data on the drive.
The problem does not occur with earlier versions of Mac OS X, however.
This report collects notes from Apple, third-party drive
manufacturers and MacInTouch readers to explain the problem, the
solutions and best practices for managing the whole issue.
-MacInTouch
Ref. http://www.macintouch.com/panfirewire.html
This is almost 2 years old!
later in that same article is a letter from a LaCie guy:
The specific warnings we have published on our website have to do
with the Firewire 800 bug that was illuminated with the release of
Panther 10.3 last fall. LaCie and Apple immediately acknowledged
the matter, and the result was a firmware update posted by LaCie
within a few days, as well as an OS X 10.3.1 update soon after. All
LaCie Firewire 800 drives manufactured after October 2003 already
have the fixed firmware, so there is no need to document it with
shipping product.
So it should all be fine if you are using a newer Firewire 800 drive,
any? Firewire 400 drive perhaps based on his statement, but I've not
researched the Apple technotes about the issue, or have properly
updated your OS past 10.3.0.
From reading about firewire, it seems that good (=expensive) cables
are a Very Good Idea. not the $4 cheapies....
B
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