[iBook] Kernel Panic with Firewire Drive

[Brian Pearce]

> I have an iBook 600, (Dec 2001) now with Mac OS X 10.3.6. I use a 
> Maxtor 300G Firewire Drive now and then. Pretty much every time I plug 
> it in I get a kernel panic and need to restart. It did not do this 
> back with 10.3.5. Someone aware of the issues here? Should I plug in 
> the drive, then turn it on? Turn it on then plug it in?

Sorry, I have no idea how my reply disappeared from that message...

What I meant to say was that I also have a Maxtor drive (used for 
regular backups) that's caused the same problem for my iMac, through 
several iterations of OS X; I finally discovered that if I power up the 
drive *after* it's been connected, I have no problems. What's 
interesting, though, is that it *never* causes this problem with my Key 
Lime iBook.

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