[X4U] 10.3.6 and Firewire hard drives

[Eugene]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 05:17:51PM +0100, stephenpassmore at mac.com wrote:
: 
: I've seen on macfixit.com that after upgrading to 10.3.6., some have 
: had problems mounting their Firewire hard drives.  Seems like a repeat 
: of the old OS X / Oxford chipset problem.

Not necessarily.  One person said it could be a 3rd-party kext that's
causing some of the problems:

	<http://www.macintouch.com/panreader43.html>

>	Bob Bousfield Regarding the issue of FireWire problems with Mac
>	OS X 10.3.6:
>
> 	It may be that these people have previously installed the
> 	Intech Speed Tools package. This installs a System level
> 	kernel extension (System - Library - Extensions) that
> 	reportedly 'tunes' FireWire activity.
>
> 	I had this installed on my machine and had strange FireWire
> 	issues, including an iPod that would not mount.
>
> 	Removing the kext fixed the issues.


-- 
Eugene Lee
http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/