{"id":25,"date":"2004-11-21T02:27:29","date_gmt":"2004-11-21T07:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/?p=25"},"modified":"2004-11-21T02:27:29","modified_gmt":"2004-11-21T07:27:29","slug":"apple-1036-osx-and-disappearing-firewire-ait-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2004\/11\/21\/apple-1036-osx-and-disappearing-firewire-ait-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple 10.3.6 OSX and Disappearing Firewire AIT Drives"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Damn Apple and their shoddy upgrades. I heard about people losing Firewire drives with the 10.3.6 update, but I was thinking disk drives… so why did it take over a week to finally put 2 and 2 together and understand why my Retrospect backups were failing… on my external AIT firewire drive? It wasn’t showing up. I plugged it in and out, checked the System Profiler. It reported just a firewire device. Retrospect saw nothing. So i Googled ‘missing firewire drives’ and got a hit on MaxfixIt<\/a> about the same thing happening to people with 10.3.3. Someone there suggested using an older kernel extension for firewire, IOFirewireFamily.kext<\/strong> and just replace the crap one that Apple released. Luckily, I had done a clean system install about a month ago, where it just replaces your system folder and nothing else, so I had a backup system… The kext in 10.3.6 was 1.8.6, the one I had in the Previous System was 1.8.3. I copied it over and rebooted. And got my external tape drive back. Thanks. Now I have to figure out why this USB multi-format card reader also stopped working with 10.3.6. I’m amazed that Apple lets this out the door.\n<\/p>\n

To replace a kext, it’s best to use a shell. The finder won’t let you copy into that folder. This did it for me:\n<\/p>\n

blinky:~ dillera$ sudo cp -rpf \/Volumes\/BlinkyClient\/Previous\\ Systems\/Previous\\ System\\ 1\/System\/Library\/Extensions\/IOFireWireFamily.kext \/System\/Library\/Extensions
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Damn Apple and their shoddy upgrades. I heard about people losing Firewire drives with the 10.3.6 update, but I was thinking disk drives… so why did it take over a week to finally put 2 and 2 together and understand why my Retrospect backups were failing… on my external AIT firewire drive? 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