[Ti] Panther FireWire debacle

[David DelMonte]

I've been running Panther on a test machine for a while now. According 
to press, the problem seems limited to firewire 800. There are new 
drivers available today from LaCie and WiebeTech for their firewire 800 
equipment. I have an external LaCie firewire 400 drive (L2/200), and 
it's fine.

Actually surprised how few problems I have with this major release. 
When other systems are upgraded (Windows for example), my experience is 
that generally few drivers work and manufacturers all are scurrying to 
provide updates. Users often need to wait a year or so before they can 
upgrade their particular configurations. It's a different paradigm to 
be able to upgrade on day 1 or 20.


David

On Oct 31, 2003, at 11:28 AM, John R McDaniel wrote:

> On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 11:21  AM, Loren Schooley wrote:
>
>> Apple's Panther has a serious bug that wipes out external FireWire
>> drives during the upgrade procedure. Worse, many Mac users are backing
>> up to external drives before upgrading. Some are losing everything.
>
> Wow. Two black eyes in a row.
>
> Did everyone learn something from the 10.2.8 fiasco?
>
> I did. I've got Panther right next to me, but I haven't installed it 
> yet. (and still on 10.2.6).
>
> ;)  ;)
>
> j mcd