Panther's FileVault can damage data
cubic-dog
dog3 at eruditium.org
Mon Nov 10 05:33:57 PST 2003
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, petard wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 08:55:08AM -0800, Tim May wrote:
> > It's astounding to me that that Apple failed to do basic QC on its
> > major new release.
> >
> > The problem with the Firewire 800 drives using the Oxford 922 chips is
> > inexcusable. Did Apple never bother to run the new version of OS X with
> > drives made by vendors other than Apple? (I'm assuming here the
> > Firewire 800 problem is not present in Apple drives, about which I am
> > not 100% convinced.)
> >
> Which Apple drives? Is there such a thing as an Apple firewire drive, and
> if so does it use the Oxford 922 bridge chipset? This is the closest product
> I am aware of:
> http://www.apple.com/ipod/
>
> It's firewire 400 and most assuredly does not use a 922 chip.
>
> If software companies were responsible for bugs in hardware that they do not
> manufacture, MS would be in much more trouble than it is already.
>
> petard
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