If you're considering installing Mac OS X 10.3, and you're planning to back up your data on an external Firewire hard drive first, be aware that there've been a fair number of problems reported, ranging from the new OS not recognizing the drive to (in some cases) actually corrupting the data on the drive.<\/p>\n
Nobody's quite sure what causes this. Apple says it happens only with newer Firewire drives that use a particular chipset<\/a>, but someone from Macfixit says (as quoted in a Wired<\/cite> article) that it can happen with any Firewire drive that's connected<\/a> to the Mac during 10.3 installation. There's been an awful lot of traffic about this on an Apple discussion forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n I didn't have any problem; my external FW disk is still working fine. (For what it's worth, I didn't have it connected to my Mac during installation.) But it's still a little unclear what exactly the cause of the problem is, so I recommend being extra-careful until Apple's done some further investigation.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you’re considering installing Mac OS X 10.3, and you’re planning to back up your data on an external Firewire…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}