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Postby Caustic Saint » Fri Oct 31, 2003 10:30 am

Hmmmm. I have a firewire drive, but since I bought it here in Korea I have no idea what chipset it uses. I'll be holding off on that upgrade for a while since my FW drive is my backup drive.
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Re: Panther's new drive erasing feature

Postby Taro Toporific » Fri Oct 31, 2003 10:30 am

bikkle wrote:Panther glitch erases some hard drives

Apple Computer said that the glitch is limited to external hard drives that use a high-speed Firewire connection and a particular chipset manufactured by Oxford Semiconductor. The company encouraged those who have a drive that uses the chip to disconnect their drives from Macs that are being upgraded to Mac OS X version 10.3 Panther.


Damn, I use a Firewire HDD with the VERY common Oxford Semiconductor chipset. ThanX for the heads-up. :roll:
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Postby GomiGirl » Fri Oct 31, 2003 9:14 pm

Thank for the heads up as well.. we were about to upgrade the XServe and our back up disk we connect via FW.. only once a month for a full backup.. we then lock it up in a fireproof safe... the daily backups should be fine though...
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Postby GomiGirl » Tue Nov 04, 2003 9:58 pm

It's only Firewire 800.. so not a drama for us.

Actually we have been having some major email dramas again and really the only way to fix it is to upgrade to Panther..
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Postby cstaylor » Tue Nov 04, 2003 10:06 pm

GomiGirl wrote:It's only Firewire 800.. so not a drama for us.

Actually we have been having some major email dramas again and really the only way to fix it is to upgrade to Panther..
Yeah, for the number of bounces I get, you should rename the machine "rubber" ;)
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Postby GomiGirl » Tue Nov 04, 2003 10:08 pm

Yeah I'm sorry CS.. rebuilding again now.

Use the .com address. But not just yet as we are rebuilding it...
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Postby Big Booger » Tue Nov 04, 2003 10:22 pm

makes me glad I am a PC user.. J/k
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Postby American Oyaji » Tue Nov 04, 2003 11:13 pm

Actually, in the history of Apple vs. Microsoft, if you take the number of problems vs. time in business, Apples problems are just a bump in the flow of time whereas Microsoft is a frickin brick wall.

Microsoft ALWAYS has a problem with EVERY new software package that comes out.
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Postby Big Booger » Wed Nov 05, 2003 12:35 am

7% vs 93%
How many titles of software are available for each? :o
How about hardware? :P

MS has to contend with quite a few more variables than Apple ever will.
:D Think about all the hardware and software configurations the masses use on a PC versus the couple of million that use Apple products...

and then think about the thousands of manufactures of software that make products for the windows environment...
then think about the handful that make them for apple :D

just yanking your puds. :D

Apple do indeed make a fine product, I won't deny that. Virus free, trouble free for the most part, and highly reliable. If it had the hardware and software support that windows had, I'd be all over the Apple OS in a heartbeat.
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Postby Caustic Saint » Wed Nov 05, 2003 10:05 am

GomiGirl wrote:It's only Firewire 800.. so not a drama for us.

Actually we have been having some major email dramas again and really the only way to fix it is to upgrade to Panther..

I was all excited to upgrade to Panther, but the few glitches I've heard about are keeping me from spending the money. Ironically, I'm going to take the money that was slated for Panther and buy a new firewire hard drive this wekeend. :)

Besides, there's no real need to replace my current OS (10.1.5), as it's working fine. I'll have a new machine in a couple months and will get to check out Panther then.
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Just installed Panther on my 700mhz iBook

Postby cstaylor » Fri Nov 07, 2003 11:58 am

I did a clean install (it's pretty easy to backup user preferences and documents in Panther if you have a server on the network), and the iBook feels roughly twice as fast. Haven't done anything strenuous yet, like compiling programs, but Safari, Mail, and Quicktime seem pretty snappy.

Overall, I'd recommend the upgrade if you can easily backup your data beforehand.
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Re: Just installed Panther on my 700mhz iBook

Postby Caustic Saint » Sat Nov 08, 2003 9:55 pm

Caustic Saint wrote:I was all excited to upgrade to Panther, but the few glitches I've heard about are keeping me from spending the money. Ironically, I'm going to take the money that was slated for Panther and buy a new firewire hard drive this wekeend.

Besides, there's no real need to replace my current OS (10.1.5), as it's working fine. I'll have a new machine in a couple months and will get to check out Panther then.

Well, I went a made a liar out of myself today. Instead of the new drive I picked up Panther. Didn't want to wait and I'm glad I didn't. It's given new life to my iBook and

cstaylor wrote:I did a clean install (it's pretty easy to backup user preferences and documents in Panther if you have a server on the network), and the iBook feels roughly twice as fast. Haven't done anything strenuous yet, like compiling programs, but Safari, Mail, and Quicktime seem pretty snappy.

Overall, I'd recommend the upgrade if you can easily backup your data beforehand.

I used my 20GB firewire (thankfully unaffected by the glitch - it's FW400) to backup my mail and other essentials. The install seemed to take a while, but it was worth it. Jumping from 10.1 to 10.3 makes it seem almost like a whole new machine.

Upgrade, people! Upgrade! :D
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Postby Caustic Saint » Tue Nov 11, 2003 4:34 pm


Saw the blip about this on Slashdot today and went ahead with it. I hadn't had any hiccups or glitches, but why wait? :)

Pretty quick for an update too. Only 18 days after the release.
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