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.
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10.3.7 to gain Firewire drive compatibility
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gopher said:
Well in my case upgrading the Initio firmware on my WD external HDD corrected the problem I was having.
gopher said:
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.
Chip NoVaMac said:
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.
gopher said:
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.