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gopher
Dec 2, 2004, 08:53 AM
At long last, it has been reported by Think Secret and AppleInsider Apple is trying to improve compatibility with drives that wouldn't mount in 10.3.6. That's good news. Hopefully this will teach Apple to stop professing the problem is squarely on the firmware of the third party vendor and that Apple has some share in the blame for making drives less and less compatible.


Chip NoVaMac
Dec 2, 2004, 09:30 AM
Hopefully this will teach Apple to stop professing the problem is squarely on the firmware of the third party vendor and that Apple has some share in the blame for making drives less and less compatible.

Well in my case upgrading the Initio firmware on my WD external HDD corrected the problem I was having.
gopher
Dec 2, 2004, 07:37 PM
Well in my case upgrading the Initio firmware on my WD external HDD corrected the problem I was having.

Which WD model hard drive do you have?
Chip NoVaMac
Dec 3, 2004, 06:42 AM
Which WD model hard drive do you have?

The WDX80-006RRN. It is the unit that was sold by Best Buy.
trailblazer
Dec 3, 2004, 07:42 AM
i'd like better ntfs support...not only read, but write ! :)
gopher
Dec 8, 2004, 01:09 PM
The WDX80-006RRN. It is the unit that was sold by Best Buy.

Where did you download your Initio update from for this drive?
Chip NoVaMac
Dec 8, 2004, 01:16 PM
Where did you download your Initio update from for this drive?

Found the basic info here:
http://www.macmaps.com/firewirebug2.html


The link to Initio is:

http://www.initio.com/support/1430/1430support.htm

Hope this helps. Good luck.
gopher
Dec 8, 2004, 01:18 PM
Found the basic info here:
http://www.macmaps.com/firewirebug2.html


The link to Initio is:

http://www.initio.com/support/1430/1430support.htm

Hope this helps. Good luck.

Actually that is my link. Good to hear that the generic firmware update worked on the drive. Not all generic updates work on all drive models using that chipset, which is why I asked.
Chip NoVaMac
Dec 8, 2004, 01:20 PM
Actually that is my link. Good to hear that the generic firmware update worked on the drive. Not all generic updates work on all drive models using that chipset, which is why I asked.

Thanks for the page. It took a long call to WD to find out they used the Initio chipset.

Though I used the firmware update from Initio on the HDD, so far no issues that I can see. Though I use more for backup purposes.