Mac drive makers help stamp out FireWire flaw

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Mac drive makers help stamp out FireWire flaw
Last modified: October 31, 2003, 10:39 AM PST
By Ina Fried
Staff Writer, CNET News.com


A number of hard-drive makers have released patches designed to prevent a glitch that has caused some FireWire 800 drives to lose data when used with the new version of Mac OS X.

Hard-drive manufacturers LaCie, WiebeTech and Other World Computing have all posted firmware updates designed to avoid the problem, which has caused some Mac users to lose the information on their hard drives after upgrading to Mac OS X version 10.3, or Panther.

Apple Computer said Thursday that the issue is a problem with drives that use the Oxford 922 bridge chipset with firmware version 1.02.

"Apple is working with Oxford Semiconductor and affected drive manufacturers to resolve this issue, which resides in the Oxford 922 chipset," the company said in a statement.

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