The view of the Apple guy was that there was no problem 'he was aware of' with Firewire drives. He wasn't denying the problem exists he was stating the view from Apple that their, and his, testing has not reproduced the problem, and it has not been flagged as an urgent problem yet.

Out of this this came his advice on the upgrading of the System using the Combo updater.

Personally I have come across 9 reports of problems with the LaCie Big/Extreme disks (not related to Firewire problems just data being lost as a result of problems). That seems a lot to me, therefore I don't trust the concept of RAID 0 in this instance. Better to buy 2 disks and RAID 5 them.

With the 10.3.6 Firewire problems that have been reported it is, as always, hard to know if the problems experience by some are common or just as a cause of poor system management or something else, or whether we are just hearing some noise about it but it is just coincidental.

Not that that helps anyone who has lost discs/data!!!!

The rumour sites also now have mention of 10.3.7 which may have some more Firewire fixes in (although the Apple UK guy hadn't seen it!)

regards

Richard Earney
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www.method-photo.co.uk

On 19 Nov 2004, at 15:19, David Gordon wrote:

" "I am afraid that our release of a new firmware updater is more
coincidental rather than in response to 10.3.6 update. As you may already
know, we use Oxford chips, and the Oxford chips are not affected by the
FireWire issue introduced with the 10.3.6 OS X update. "

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