Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!203-165-114-223.home.ne.JP!not-for-mail From: dame_zumari@yahoo.com ( Louise Bremner) Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Nagoya/Japan Macintosh Data Recovery Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 08:10:13 +0900 Organization: Freelance in Tokyo Lines: 35 Message-ID: <1g4nts4.1e77j8y1aq0gw0N%dame_zumari@yahoo.com> References: <86k7611541.fsf@littledevil.internal.zobbo.org> <868ymf1me4.fsf@littledevil.internal.zobbo.org> <1g4kwjf.5e0tnh1n4r5huN%dame_zumari@yahoo.com> <86fzglkc7f.fsf@littledevil.internal.zobbo.org> Reply-To: log.NO.SPAM.HERE@gol.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 203-165-114-223.home.ne.jp (203.165.114.223) X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1069197017 56706226 203.165.114.223 (16 [51081]) X-Orig-Path: dame_zumari X-Face: %iNwIvDfZ-j|nw.k;rhu)ez';7*.)\P(4wF4k*;jazI\Hj>j?NDl."86 User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.4.6 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:7867 Ian J Cottee 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.... ________________________________________________________________________ Louise Bremner (log at gol dot com) If you want a reply by e-mail, don't write to my Yahoo address!