[X4U] How stable is 10.4.8?

[Matt Gregory]

Jim,

Mine are Mercury Elite Pro drives from Other World Computing.  I'm  
glad I opted for the dual USB/FireWire interface :-)

There's lots of information about the problem online.  It's all  
pretty old.  Been around since at least 10.3.  My take on it is that  
the problem has been around for a long time and Apple doesn't know  
how to fix it.  So it's simply being ignored.  You can find some  
writeups on how to "reset your FireWire ports" which may or may not  
help you for only a certain amount of time.

It makes me wonder if it's one of the reasons we see FireWire  
disappearing from some new products like the MacBook and 5G iPods ...

matt.

On 6 Oct 2006, at 8:37 PM, Jim Warthman wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
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