I have a Western Digital MyBook Premium that I bought at Target. The included cable destroyed the Firewire ports, and they sent me a new cable in the mail, so I exchanged the original drive at the store and have used only the cable they mailed me with that drive. My failures have occurred on OTHER enclosures (two newish MacAlly ones and a generic Oxford 911 one I bought at OtherWorld Computing years ago). After having the bizarre flakiness I have avoided using Firewire at all... all my new enclosures have high-speed USB which so far has been acceptable. Some of the old enclosures could very well have buggy firmware or something, but I was shocked to discover they would work great for awhile but dramatically fail on Feisty (looking very much dead) but completely resurrect on the Dapper setup.
I have some business issues to attend to but soon I will try to establish a test setup so I can rule out the hardware. Thank you for your responses! -- Flaky firewire disks Fail Feisty but Do Dapper https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/134396 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
