[Ti] Panther FireWire debacle

[cheshirekat]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003, John R McDaniel johnmcd at one.net, invoked powers
within the internet realm, to proclaim ...

>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).

Well, I'm still on 10.2.6 myself. I was going to wait until Panther had
been out for a week before buying it. Now I think I will wait a month.
Maybe even longer if I decide I should buy a _USB_ hard drive to backup
up to first. Sometimes, I'm glad to be a chicken. :)

cheshirekat