Apple Alerts Users of Issues With FireWire Storage

Dyre Straits · Nov 3, 2003, 03:39 PM

Following a growing number of online reports of problems when using external FireWire 800 hard drives with the recently released Mac OS X 10.3, aka Panther, Apple late Friday issued a blanket warning to users of all OS X versions.

Posted on Apple's Web site, the "special message" said the company had identified an issue with external FireWire hard drives. It pointed to the Oxford Semiconductor Ltd.'s 922 bridge chipset with Version 1.02 firmware as the source of the problem. "In the interim, Apple recommends that you do not use these drives. To stop using the drive, you should unmount or eject the disk drive before doing anything else," the message stated.

By David Morgenstern
November 1, 2003

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Dyre Straits HH Old Fuddy Duddy Join Date: May 2002 Location: Georgia, USA Posts: 14,205 Rep Power: 216 System Specs	Apple Alerts Users of Issues With FireWire Storage Following a growing number of online reports of problems when using external FireWire 800 hard drives with the recently released Mac OS X 10.3, aka Panther, Apple late Friday issued a blanket warning to users of all OS X versions. Posted on Apple's Web site, the "special message" said the company had identified an issue with external FireWire hard drives. It pointed to the Oxford Semiconductor Ltd.'s 922 bridge chipset with Version 1.02 firmware as the source of the problem. "In the interim, Apple recommends that you do not use these drives. To stop using the drive, you should unmount or eject the disk drive before doing anything else," the message stated. By David Morgenstern November 1, 2003 More Info Source: eWeek