[G4] Panther: Serious Firewire hard drive bug

[tdayton at belkprinting.com]

Casey,

There was no mention about this problem being specific to Panther 
(10.3). We had/have a Western Digital 80 GB external FW hard drive that 
lost all it's data. Now that the original box and manual are trashed, 
how would one go about getting the chip-set information? A listing of 
effected hard drive would have been appreciated. Thanks Apple. Thanks 
for the heads-up Casey.

Tom Dayton


On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 01:06  AM, Casey wrote:

> This was just posted on Macintouch.com
>
> [21:05 ET]  Dan Casali notes that Apple has now acknowledged a very 
> serious
> Panther FireWire 800 bug that could destroy your files:
>
> Apple has identified an issue with external FireWire hard drives using 
> the
> Oxford 922 bridge chip-set with firmware version 1.02 that can result 
> in the
> loss of data stored on the disk drive. Apple is working with Oxford
> Semiconductor and affected drive manufacturers to resolve this issue 
> which
> resides in the Oxford 922 chip-set.
>   In the interim, Apple recommends that you do not use these drives. 
> To stop
> using the drive, you should unmount or eject the disk drive before 
> doing
> anything else. Please check this web page for further updates.
>
> http://www.apple.com/macosx/firewire800specialmessage.html