[geeks] comments on Tiger & FW?

[Mike F]

velociraptor wrote:

>Since someone mentioned Tiger on rescue...
>
>Having recently ran into 10.3 FW problems on a G4
>I got used at the TCF (it may well be a HW problem,
>not sure yet), I was wondering if anyone had any
>comments vis-a-vis Tiger and FW improvements?
>
>I have been researching why my external drive won't
>show up on the FW bus on this new (old) box, and it
>seems Panther has a lot of FW problems I have just
>never run into on previous machines.
>
>Thanks--
>=Nadine=
>  
>
I can't say about Tiger (haven't used it yet) but just last week I
upgraded to 10.3.9 and "lost" my Firewire drive, a MacAlly PHR-100AF. OS
X newbie as I am, I was oblivious to Apple's recommendation that
FireWire drives be ejected and unplugged during upgrades  :-| Rumor had
it that upgrading the firmware in the FW drive would fix the problem, so
I emailed MacAlly support, and they provided the firmware update
utility. Now the drive is back, no data loss or corruption. Other than
the OS X upgrade gotcha, I've had no problems with FW on my Mini - of
course, this is my first OS X machine, and the only other Mac I've owned
was a Mac 128K (which is resting in my attic currently)

- Mike