OWC issues updated firmware for its FireWire 800 drives

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Apple Releases Updated OS X to Fix
FireWire, Game Issues

Apple Releases Updated OS X to Fix
FireWire, Game Issues 12/19/2004 03:02 PM
Version 10.3.7 of the Mac OS X operating system addresses an issue with some FireWire hard drives not mounting, as well as problems with certain games' graphics.

FireWire 800 firmware updates released

FireWire 800 firmware updates released 10/31/2003 10:35 AM
Several companies have now released firmware updaters for their FireWire 800 products designed to resolve compatibility issues discovered with Apple's recently released Mac OS X 10.3 Panther...

Update: FireWire firmware updates

Update: FireWire firmware updates 07/05/2004 11:24 AM
FireWire Depot has made available new FireWire firmware releases from Oxford and Initio.

WiebeTech releases FireWire 800 firmware
updater

WiebeTech releases FireWire 800 firmware
updater 10/31/2003 02:44 AM
Wichita, Kansas-based peripheral maker, WiebeTech is the third company to issue a warning about using FireWire 800 hard drives with Mac OS X Panther since Apple first acknowledged the problem late last night.

New LaCie FireWire 800 Firmware
Available for Windows XP SP2 Users

New LaCie FireWire 800 Firmware
Available for Windows XP SP2 Users 08/13/2004 03:27 AM
Customers who have or plan to update to Windows XP SP2 and own a LaCie hard drive with a FireWire 800 interface should download the latest LaCie firmware. [PRWEB Aug 13, 2004]

OWC FireWire 800 Drives 1.05

OWC FireWire 800 Drives 1.05 11/06/2003 05:02 PM
Perform this update to prevent loss of data when using the drives in conjuction with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther.

Cobra FireWire 800/USB II Drives 1.0

Cobra FireWire 800/USB II Drives 1.0 11/04/2003 08:21 PM
This latest firmware helps avoid problems such as data loss under Mac OS X 10.3 Panther.

EZQuest updates FW800 drives, offers
firmware fix

EZQuest updates FW800 drives, offers
firmware fix 11/04/2003 07:32 AM
Storage peripheral maker EZQuest announced Monday that all of its FireWire 800-equipped drives are shipping with updated firmware to correct a previously identified problem with Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther."

Panther/FireWire Drive Issue: More
Firmware Updates; Public Statements,
Frequently Asked Questions; More

Panther/FireWire Drive Issue: More
Firmware Updates; Public Statements,
Frequently Asked Questions; More 11/05/2003 05:56 PM
(MacFixIt via MyAppleMenu)

Panther/FireWire Drive Problems: Apple's
Statement; More Firmware Updates; LaCie
Comments; Recommendations; More

Panther/FireWire Drive Problems: Apple's
Statement; More Firmware Updates; LaCie
Comments; Recommendations; More 11/06/2003 08:32 PM
Our reports on FireWire hard drive problems with Panther continue today with updated announcements from Apple, additional statements and firmware updates from drive vendors, comments and information from LaCie, and some more MacFixIt recommendations. (MacFixIt via MyAppleMenu)

An OS 9 / Classic fix for unmountable
FireWire drives

An OS 9 / Classic fix for unmountable
FireWire drives 08/27/2004 01:38 PM
I have had a ongoing problem with miscellaneous FireWire drives that won't mount. Clicking on the grayed-out drive in the Disk Utility only creates an endless beachball. After trying DiskWarrior, Data Rescue, and other variou...

FireWire Hard Drives and The Future of
the TBU

FireWire Hard Drives and The Future of
the TBU 06/12/2004 06:49 PM

I bought a FireWire hard drive enclosure the other day, and I'm awfully happy with it. It cost about $45 and I filled it with an old 40GB hard drive I had lying around. It works beautifully — plug it into a FireWire port and you get a G: drive.

It makes me wonder what'll happen to the venerable tape backup unit (TBU). I have a TBU on my server, but it's old, slow, cranky, and only holds 20GB. Furthermore, 20GB tapes are like, $30 while hard drives are running less than a dollar per gigabyte these days.

Right now, I can think of no reason why I would use my TBU for anything anymore. Am I missing something? I imagine that tapes are physically pretty durable, certainly more so than a hard drive, but is there anything else?

I'm using this portable hard drive for off-site backups. Once a week, I'll bring the drive in, copy the latest backups onto it, and take it home where it will sit on my bookshelf for a week until I bring it in again to refresh the backups.

FireWire hard drives, incidentally, are fast as lightning. I have a small RAID Tower which runs via FireWire. You'd never know it wasn't an internal SCSI drive. In fact, I installed a very CPU- and I/O-intensive server process on it once and it ran beautifully. Again, the simplicity is amazing — plug it in and you get an F: drive, end of story.

I'm so impressed with the utility of these things that I'd go so far as call them mandatory equipment for your PC. The enclosure will cost you $45. I found a 40GB Maxtor drive on Froogle for $32. I bought a FireWire card and cable on eBay last year for $15. That's $92 for 40GB of removable storage that you can throw in a fanny pack — tough to beat.

On my next PC, I'm going to physically separate the operating system from my data files. I'll keep all my data on an external FireWire unit, and only keep the OS and program files on the internal IDE unit. I'd love for my PC to be essentially disposable. If I have a problem, just pave and reload it knowing that all my data files are safe and secure a few feet away on the external unit. Perversely, I may mirror them on the internal drive just for redundancy.

For the record, I bought the Metal Gear Box from NewEgg. It was rock simple to get running — find a hard drive, physically screw it into the unit, plug it two cables, then plug it into the PC.

I'm not thrilled with look of the thing — it's all brushed aluminum and black metal grating. (Kind of makes me feel like a 40-year-old man driving around in a lowered Civic with a big wing on the back.) Additionally, when you put it down, there's no padding or rubber stops, so it kind of clanks against the desk, which makes me a little nervous.

Anyway, the theory is valid. External hard drives: good. FireWire: great. Go get one.

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EZQuest Cobra FireWire 800/USB II Drives
1.0

EZQuest Cobra FireWire 800/USB II Drives
1.0 11/06/2003 05:02 PM
This latest firmware helps avoid problems such as data loss under Mac OS X 10.3 Panther.

External FireWire Hard Drives

External FireWire Hard Drives 10/29/2003 01:13 AM
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Iomega begins shipping new FireWire REV
drives

Iomega begins shipping new FireWire REV
drives 08/02/2004 12:23 PM
Iomega has begun shipping its FireWire REV drives. These drives offer up to 90GB of storage. Along with being eight times faster than tape drives it costs less (somewhere around half the price of average tape drives).

Data storage leader Iomega has begun shipment of its brand new FireWire version of its Iomega REV drive. The new product, the REV 35GB 1394/Firewire drive, allows Mac users a supposedly powerful, high-performance way to back-up there machines or for large, portable file storage. The REV drive was originally launched back in April, and available in USB 2.0 and ATAPI models. The device got praise from the computer industry and press, and was presented with the "Best of CeBIT America" award. SCSI and Serial ATA models are expected to arrive later in the year.

This new FireWire drive comes in a two-tone design – white and light grey, in order to coordinate with the Mac's other products. That ought to keep fashion-conscious computer-yuppies happy, at least. Each REV FireWire drive will come with a Mac-formatted REV disk, so you can get to work straight out of the box. The disk can apparently be "easily reformatted" for PC users.

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TikiMac offers aluminum Kuna
FireWire/USB drives

TikiMac offers aluminum Kuna
FireWire/USB drives 07/06/2004 12:10 PM
TikiMac today announced the immediate availability of its new Kuna series of external hard drives...

EZQuest announces new Thunder FireWire
hard drives

EZQuest announces new Thunder FireWire
hard drives 07/02/2004 04:45 AM
EZQuest has announced that it is in the process of finalizing its new line of Thunder FireWire 400 and 800 external hard drives...

EZQuest to debut dual-format DVD-/+
FireWire drives

EZQuest to debut dual-format DVD-/+
FireWire drives 01/05/2004 05:29 PM
EZQuest will introduce two dual-format DVD-/DVD+ external FireWire drives at Macworld Expo this week...

Notes and Tips: FireWire Issues

Notes and Tips: FireWire Issues 08/03/2004 11:15 AM
Paul Schaefer writes about FireWire compatibility problems.

FireWire Hard Drives: Portable, Desktop
Storage Devices Compared

FireWire Hard Drives: Portable, Desktop
Storage Devices Compared 04/05/2005 01:27 AM

By James Galbraith and Jeffy Milstead, Macworld

Important: glitch in Apple's Panther
erases connected FireWire drives

Important: glitch in Apple's Panther
erases connected FireWire drives 11/01/2003 05:17 AM
So shall I install Panther or not? .. disconnect your FireWire drive

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Apple Addresses Panther Firewire Issues

Apple Addresses Panther Firewire Issues 10/30/2003 10:26 PM
MacCentral reports that Apple has responded to concerns about file corruption on External Firewire Drives. According to a statement from Apple, "Ap...

FireWire Hard Drives: Portable, Desktop
External Storage Devices Compared

FireWire Hard Drives: Portable, Desktop
External Storage Devices Compared 03/17/2005 03:10 AM

By James Galbraith and Jeffy Milstead, Macworld

SMC 7008ABRv2 and 7004VBRv1 updated
firmware corrects port 1900 issue.

SMC 7008ABRv2 and 7004VBRv1 updated
firmware corrects port 1900 issue. 06/08/2004 04:13 AM
user86 (Jun 05 2004)

Apple To Address Panther, External
FireWire Drive Issues

Apple To Address Panther, External
FireWire Drive Issues 10/30/2003 08:16 PM
"Apple has identified an issue with external FireWire hard drives using the Oxford 922 bridge chip-set with firmware version 1.02 that can result in the loss of data stored on the disk drive." By Jim Darlymple (MacCentral via MyAppleMenu)

Apple to address Panther, external
FireWire drive issues

Apple to address Panther, external
FireWire drive issues 10/30/2003 09:21 PM
Apple Computer Inc. has responded to concerns from its users that Mac OS X Panther disables or corrupts files on external FireWire 800 hard disks. Users began reporting the issues to Apple shortly after the release of the operating system on October 24, 2003.

[RHSA-2004:001-01] Updated Ethereal
packages fix security issues

[RHSA-2004:001-01] Updated Ethereal
packages fix security issues 01/08/2004 08:28 PM
bugzilla_at_redhat.com (Jan 07 2004)

[RHSA-2003:323-01] Updated Ethereal
packages fix security issues

[RHSA-2003:323-01] Updated Ethereal
packages fix security issues 11/10/2003 11:39 PM
bugzilla_at_redhat.com (Nov 10 2003)

[FLSA-2005:2129] Updated mysql packages
fix security issues

[FLSA-2005:2129] Updated mysql packages
fix security issues 03/25/2005 02:58 PM
Marc Deslauriers (Mar 24 2005)

Re: [FLSA-2005:2129] Updated mysql
packages fix security issues

Re: [FLSA-2005:2129] Updated mysql
packages fix security issues 03/25/2005 02:57 PM
Ventsislav Genchev (Mar 25 2005)

[RHSA-2004:048-01] Updated PWLib
packages fix protocol security issues

[RHSA-2004:048-01] Updated PWLib
packages fix protocol security issues 02/13/2004 07:47 PM
bugzilla_at_redhat.com (Feb 13 2004)

[FLSA-2005:152532] Updated kernel
packages fix security issues

[FLSA-2005:152532] Updated kernel
packages fix security issues 06/05/2005 11:39 PM
Posted by Marc Deslauriers, Saturday, 4 June

FireWire 800 Drives With Oxford 922:
Apple Statement; LaCie, WiebeTech, OWC
Updates; Oxford Statement; Taking
Precautions

FireWire 800 Drives With Oxford 922:
Apple Statement; LaCie, WiebeTech, OWC
Updates; Oxford Statement; Taking
Precautions 10/31/2003 09:38 PM
(MacFixIt via MyAppleMenu)

KernelThread Examines Extensible
Firmware And Open Firmware

KernelThread Examines Extensible
Firmware And Open Firmware 06/17/2004 01:12 PM

[FLSA-2005:2155] Updated sharutils
package fixes security issues

[FLSA-2005:2155] Updated sharutils
package fixes security issues 03/25/2005 02:58 PM
Marc Deslauriers (Mar 24 2005)

MDKSA-2004:049 - Updated libneon
packages fix heap variable overflow
issues

MDKSA-2004:049 - Updated libneon
packages fix heap variable overflow
issues 05/19/2004 02:58 PM
Mandrake Linux Security Team (May 19 2004)

[FLSA-2005:2268] Updated spamassassin
package fixes security issues

[FLSA-2005:2268] Updated spamassassin
package fixes security issues 03/25/2005 02:57 PM
Marc Deslauriers (Mar 24 2005)

FireWire Depot intros FireWire optical
repeater

FireWire Depot intros FireWire optical
repeater 09/22/2004 02:19 AM
FireWire Depot has introduced the Newnex FireNEX-MX, an optical repeater for transmitting FireWire 400 and 800 data signals over multi mode optical fiber cable up to 3,280 feet long. It's slightly larger than a deck of cards and contains two 6-pin FireWire 400 ports and one FireWire 800 port. According to the FireWire Depot Web site, the Newnex FireNEX-MX will be in stock on Oct. 11 for US$850, with optical cables available in lengths from 32 to 3,280 feet, starting at $65.

New: FireWire Depot FireWire 800
releases

New: FireWire Depot FireWire 800
releases 06/10/2004 09:58 AM
FireWire Depot released four new FireWire 800 products: a CardBus adapter, a repeater/hub, a PCI host adapter, and a FireWire 800/USB 2.0 bridge board.
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