[Ti] Firewire 400 vs 800

[David DelMonte]

How do you find and install disk drive firmware?


On Jan 5, 2006, at 8:47 PM, John Griffin wrote:

> To add a bit to this rather abbreviated reply, just make sure that  
> the drive’s firmware is up to date. Some early FW800 drives had  
> some issues with Mac OS X because of the Oxford chipset. Later  
> firmware patches were issued that corrected the problem. These  
> problems surfaced with Panther, but I have not heard of any issues  
> with Tiger. But just to be on the safe side, visit the  
> manufacturer’s web site where the most recent firmware update  
> should be posted for download.
>
> jg
>
> On 5-Jan-06, at 7:33 PM, Ondra Soukup wrote:
>
>> no
>> On Jan 5, 2006, at 22:54 , David DelMonte wrote:
>>
>>> I'd like to ask the group's collective wisdom:
>>>
>>> I have some external hard drives. Do they stand more chance of  
>>> failure in FW 800 enclosures than FW400?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> David
>
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