Apple Addresses Panther Firewire Issues

[nlz]

Re: Re: CD burners, too?

Originally posted by MacBandit
Did you do a clean install or an update install?

Archive install. Worked nicely because I had strictly kept all personal data and Library stuff in my home directory and never moved Apple software from its default location.

Also if your read this thread clear through you will see that the firewire issue is not with Apple or 10.3 but with that chipset. That chipset is having problems with Mac all versions of the Mac OS from 9-10.3 and with Windows XP.

Indeed that's not my understanding after reading this thread through. It sounds more like "I have a FW drive that used to work, and Panther broke it" and less like "My drive was always broken, but I just decided to start complaining because Panther came out".

Guess I'm just a little weary right now because it's not all better with Panther and two of my friends who had switched are now switching back because of GPU problems on their iBooks, money back, lawyers involved and all...

 

[MacBandit]

Re: Re: LaCie responds

Originally posted by wdlove
I'm suprised that Lacie had this problem. Lacie is the product that is sold at my local Apple Store. It was highly recommended by the staff. All the problems with Panther and the G5 are very discouraging.

Genie, I'm not sure what you mean by move them to ATA buses?

She means she removed them from they're external case and installed them on an internal ATA bus.

 

[MacBandit]

Re: Re: Re: CD burners, too?

Originally posted by nlz
Archive install. Worked nicely because I had strictly kept all personal data and Library stuff in my home directory and never moved Apple software from its default location.



Indeed that's not my understanding after reading this thread through. It sounds more like "I have a FW drive that used to work, and Panther broke it" and less like "My drive was always broken, but I just decided to start complaining because Panther came out".

Guess I'm just a little weary right now because it's not all better with Panther and two of my friends who had switched are now switching back because of GPU problems on their iBooks, money back, lawyers involved and all...

Sounds like you did an Archive install with the option to copy your old prefs over. This is not much better than doing and upgrade install. At the very least you should do an archive install without the option to copy prefs. Then manually only copy the the prefs over that you absolutely have to have (i.e. your mailbox). Any thing you can manually reconfigure do so.

Well there are people in this thread that say their drive has died under OS9. There are also people in this thread that have said their drive has died under 10.2 and Windows XP.

 

[Genie]

Re: Re: LaCie responds

Originally posted by wdlove
I'm suprised that Lacie had this problem. Lacie is the product that is sold at my local Apple Store. It was highly recommended by the staff. All the problems with Panther and the G5 are very discouraging.

Genie, I'm not sure what you mean by move them to ATA buses?

Not that you really have to, but I just pulled the firewire drives out of the firewire enclosures and hooked them up to internal ide busses or to an acard/siig raid card. They run faster that way, but are not as flexible in distance from the computer and you can't hot-plug them.

Really, do'nt worry, Panther's wonderful- any move to a new operating system is going to have a few bumps. (Apple didn't pay me to say that!)

 

[chruldt]

anyone tried to run fsck_hfs on a damaged drive?

Could make problems worse, but since the problem seems to stem from fsck interpreting the drive as UFS it just might help...

I also assume that no-one has had the problems on a UFS formatted drive...

Do you think I should format my drive as UFS until things stabilize?