[FW] Trouble with Firewire on External Enclosure with serial ata

[Larry Blodgett]

Clear as a bell!!!  I understand clearly.  The upgrade cannot cause a 
problem so, do it.

It may take me a some time to be certain that I follow the instructions 
exactly.  As soon as I do this I will let everyone know how it works.

I want everyone who has helped me with this, to how much I appreciate 
your help.  Without this avenue I would be lost in trying to 
troubleshoot this problem.

Thanks for the help.

I will get back with you later.

Larry


On Jan 4, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Art McGee wrote:

> This is all wrong. Numerous people have reported problems
> with the Oxford 911 chipset going all the way back to the
> first Firewire bug that hit Mac OS 10.3.0. Even then, some
> claimed that the problem only affected the 922 bridge, in
> spite of the fact that owners of 911 enclosures and external
> drives were having the problem. I really don't care about
> what Oxford is able to reproduce in a lab, real world
> results have been something quite different.
>
> I suggest updating the firmware no matter what, instead of
> depending on the recent unreliability of Apple updates. This
> isn't about blaming Oxford, as the problems have affected
> other chipsets, it's about troubleshooting existing problems
> and avoiding future ones. Upgrade the firware.
>
>
> Art
>
>
>> there are no known problems with the 911 chip - there were problems
>> with the  922 chip and this was related to a problem with the Apple
>> firewire driver and an Oxford update was issued not long after 10.3.6
>> was released
>>
>> yes, some people have reported problems, but none are verifiable and
>> Oxford was not able to reproduce any errors in their labs
>>
>> Oxford has issued an update to fix the problem in 10.3.6, which Apple
>> finally fixed in 10.3.7
>>
>> 10.3.7 has a better firewire driver that fixes 99.9% of the problems
>> that people encountered in 10.3.6 and no firmware patch is required if
>> using 10.3.7
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