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FW 400 and Panther
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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Ok, so now all you folks with FW 800 are fixed what about those of us with FW 400. What do we do?
There are still a significant number of reported problems with FW400 and Panther. Is someone looking into this problem or are we just forgotten.
Doug
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What problems are you having with FW400?
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The Problem is that a significant number of people with FW 400 have experienced the same problem as FW 800, ie a scrambled FW drive, and I won't install Panther until I'm reasonably sure that the same thing won't happen to me. I can't afford to have my backup FW 400 trashed.
Doug
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I really haven't seen any figures on 400 drive failures so I can't comment on that but I recommend you do what I did long before Panther or Jag came out. I installed a second internal ATA drive which I use to back up my primary drive with Carbon Copy Cloner. It's presently big enough to hold all the primary's data plus that of the only external Firewire drive I have. I also noticed that the potential to corrupt firewire drives on Panther only happens if the drive is left attached during startups, shutdowns, and restarts. The sensible solution is to unmount your external drive before that and you will be fine.
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I used the OWC updater to update my FW400 drives firmware, the latest was 3.7 and mine had 3.5. Even though the companies claim only FW800 drives are affected, I went ahead and upgraded my FW400 firmware anyways since people have reported losing data on theirs.
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Originally posted by schk:
I used the OWC updater to update my FW400 drives firmware, the latest was 3.7 and mine had 3.5. Even though the companies claim only FW800 drives are affected, I went ahead and upgraded my FW400 firmware anyways since people have reported losing data on theirs.
Did you bother checking if people were losing data with Firmware 3.5 or 3.7? The situation could be that 3.5 is fine but 3.7 has the problem.
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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I have a Cobra EZQuest FW400. I download the FW800 from EZQuest website and it says that I have OXFW911 and firmware v. 2.9 (dated 3.12.02)
I tried to run it but it wouldn't let me.
Now what?
Doug
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