Ian J Cottee <ian@cottee.org> wrote:

> > > If anyone else got their firewire disks 'Panthered' ...
> > 
> > Whups.... Is that what happened? We're thinking of getting Panther
> > (having missed Jaguar by just a couple of days), but you've got me
> > worried about the firewire disk....
> 
> It is (was) a known problem. It's only affects certain chipsets and
> there is a fix on the Apple web site. However, that is not a lot of use
> if you don't know about it beforehand. 
> 
> I have no idea if this disk was the result of such a thing (the chap who
> owned it said not) but the symptoms and resolution fitted. But suffice
> to say - if you install Jaguar, unplug the firewire drive and don't plug
                          ^^^^^^ Panther?
> it in again until you have the system updates. 

(or make sure it never gets used on the Panther-ized machine, of
course.)
> 
> I like Panther although I can't say it seems much more of an advance
> from Jaguar. 

Ah, but it would be a huge advance over the pre-Jaguar OSX we're using.

> The best thing I did last week was get rid of the god awful
> Japanese default keyboard that came with my iMac...

One advantage of buying through Apple Shop is you can specify the US
keyboard, but it's still pretty lousy....

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