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Mac OS 10.3 and firewire [www.macintouch.com]

I'm beginning what I expect to be a long research project into how to get my Mac's external firewire disk working again. About a week ago, it disappeared, and is not recognized at all.

Let's begin the diagnosis.

First of all, Macintouch has a very worrysome article on Firewire in 10.3. It looks like there were some very serious bugs in the firmware or in 10.3 that are causing data loss and corruption in external Firewire disks. Great. Let's cross our fingers that that is not what happened... although I am concerned it might be exactly that.

http://www.macintouch.com/panfirewire.html

Well, it looks like I am in luck. The drive I have is a dual connection, so I was able to connect to it via USB. Perhaps the Firewire cable went bad?

11:03 AM, 09 Nov 2006 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

Neat trick with tar

(cd /directory; tar -cfv - files) | (ssh other-hostname 'cd /another-directory; tar -xf -')

05:11 PM, 03 Nov 2006 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

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