[CUBE] Panther

[Bill Fox]

Maybe so but we've not had a single problem updating dozens of Macs, 
most with one or two FW400 drives from many different manufacturers 
attached and running. Many of them were also subsequently updated to 
Panther and now function again as boot drives. We don't have any 800's. 
But I guess, as always, YMMV.

On Oct 31, 2003, at 12:36 PM, Todd Masco wrote:

> Bill wrote:
>> Don't attach a FireWire 800 drive to it. The drive needs an update of
>> its firmware to beyond v1.02 and will need to be attached to a Mac not
>> running Panther to do so. If you have no FW800 drives, no problems.
>
> Um, that's not what the word on the street is.  Besides the MacFixIt 
> reference I posted before, there have been reports on Macintouch, 
> MacSlash, and this morning a Wired article about FW400 drives dying, 
> too:
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,61031,00.html
>