[X4U] firewire woes

[Jan Melichar]

On 26 Feb 2006, at 01:22, Randy B.Singer wrote:

> Jan Melichar said:
>
>> two days go two LaCie drives connected to my G5 had 'disappeared'
>> when I woke the computer up. No amount of restarting, turning the
>> drives off and on, repairing permission and so on made any
>> difference.
>> ... I did
>> install the 10.4.5 update a week ago.
>>
>> Anyone any any idea what might be going on here?
>
> When you updated to 10.4.5, were your FireWire drives connected to  
> your
> Mac?  If so, this is the root of your problem.  You should never have
> your FireWire drives connected when you update your OS.
>
> Some folks have fount that reapplying the stand-alone updater fixes  
> the
> problem.
>
> Randy B. Singer


Thanks for the tip.

Yes they were. Apart from coming across this problem and your email  
how else might I have found out about disconnecting  the FE drives  
prior to updating a system?

I'll try reapplying the update.

Jan