[G4] Panther: Serious Firewire hard drive bug

[sr ferenczy]

actually, all the reports have said it is a bug with Oxford's 922 
chipset with firmware 1.02 and previous. most likely if you have a 
FW800 drive, it is a 922 chipset-they are definitely the most prevalent.

sandor

On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 08:57  AM, tdayton at belkprinting.com 
wrote:

> 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
>
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