Firewire 800 Panther Patches [Updated]
According to the company, it affects drives with OXUF922 Firewire Drives which contain the 1.03 software revision or less. Therefore, it is recommended that all users upgrade to v1.05 which should be available from your drive manufacturer. Data loss is most likely to occur at startup and shutdown, so it is recommended that users hot-plug/unplug their Firewire drives from their systems while their system is booted (Be sure to 'Eject' your Drive before unplugging).
Related Driver Links:
LaCie: 1.05 Driver
OWC/MacSales: 1.05 Driver
FirewireDirect: 1.05 Driver
EZQuest: 1.05 Driver
Update: Apple has posted an update to their Firewire 800 statement that the firmware updates will resolve the data loss issues and provides links to manufacturer updates.
- Apple and Oxford Semiconductor have confirmed that firmware version 1.05 resolves the data loss issue experienced by some FW800 users.
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Originally posted by daRAT
so fw 400 is un-effected? What about BusLink drives?
> their systems while their system is booted.
Not an expert at this, but I don't think it would be too wise to hot-unplug your Firewire drive. I think the safest thing to do is "Eject" it first, and then you can turn it off.
When I "Eject" mine, the disk spins down, and then I know all of the data has been written; i.e, there is nothing in cache waiting to be written. I think I have seen elsewhere where this could also corrupt a partition, like if you yank out a USB drive. They can also be messed up if you don't "eject" first.
At least, this is what I do with Jag, and never a problem yet. Waiting on Digi to go to Panther.....
Oh, wait, I think that's taken.....
Originally posted by MacVault
What about iPods? I thought I read a few reports of iPods getting jacked up when used on Panther. Different problem, or am I on crack?
ever play that game where one person tells another a secret and so on, down a line and then the last person repeats it aloud?
this is where your iPod corruption idea prolly came from. as well as the 911 chipset problems.
As a side note, I was using this drive and storing my mp3's on it. I was playing them at a party I was hosting and the drive froze, and I used Norton to recover the drive. I finally copied all mp3's over from the external disk, and although they all copied, many of them are cut short. The entire mp3 is intact, but iTunes and Quicktime will go to the next song at various times, but the entire song is not finished. If anyone knows a fix, please let me know.
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