[X4U] firewire woes

[John in San Diego]

Randy  - I think I heard about the admonition about not updating with  
FireWire drives attached before but it never stuck between my ears.
Looking back, now - I've always had two FireWire Drives attached -  
over a number of updates - without even knowing I should be having  
problems (?) .... Perhaps since both of my FireWire Drives are behind  
a powered modem saved me?

Just passing on a personal experience… I'll have to remember to be  
more careful on future upgrades, Don't want to press my luck!

Thanks for the good advise over the years.


On Feb 25, 2006, at 5:22 PM, 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.
>