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10.3: Auto unmount external drives on logout
Authored by: Fofer on Nov 07, '03 11:46:44AM

My gut says this "feature" is what's contributing to all the Firewire HD disaster problems we're hearing about... on FW 800 mechanisms and (despite Apple's silence on the matter) FW 400 mechanisms as well. Not all mechanisms are created the same, and Apple's unmounting procedure probably doesn't agree with all of them.

Something tells me this feature is half-baked, or had problems, and that's why the "Home on iPod" feature was pulled at the last minute. And there's something about this "auto-unmount" that's destroying people's HD enclosures/data!

(Not to mention too, that the final release of Backup 2 doesn't work if you've moved your Home folder. Other programs get confused too... so if you decide to do this, be prepared for some frutration, unfortunately.)

Definitely use this feature with caution until we learn more!



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10.3: Auto unmount external drives on logout
Authored by: GoobleyGook on Nov 07, '03 12:55:45PM

Update your Firewire drive firmware. Update your Firewire drive firmware. Update your Firewire drive firmware. This data lost is Apple's/Panthaner's fault fallacy campaign is getting out of hand, Join in the fight against it.



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10.3: Auto unmount external drives on logout
Authored by: Fofer on Nov 10, '03 12:14:27PM

Update Firewire firmware? How does one do that to their FW400 drives, when the only firmware updates out there (to address this issue) are for FW800 drives?

I have confirmed reports of at least 10 instances now where folks have upgraded to Panther and now are unable to access the data on their FW400 drives. Not to mention the countless reports on the web.

FW400.

And they worked fine for months with Jaguar. Simply updating to Jaguar has rendered the data inaccessible.

FW400.

Now what?



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