Matt, I'm still running 10.4.7, but I've had similar issues with external FW drives. I'm curious, what manufacturer/model drive(s) are giving you these problems? My problems have been with a Maxtor OneTouch III 1 TB drive. Thanks, -- Jim On 10/6/06 5:17 PM, "Matt Gregory" <vdub.grego at gmail.com> wrote: > It's probably just coincidental, but the occasional problem I have > with external firewire hard drives seems to have come up a couple of > times now in the past 3 days since I've had 10.4.8 installed.