MacTech

Firewire Direct ships portable FireWire/UBS 2.0 drive

Firewire Direct today introduced its new Spark II Pro 2.5″ external FireWire/USB 2.0 combo hard drive. The drive features the Oxford 911 FireWire bridge chipset, delivering significant performance ...
CNET

Panther/FireWire drive problems: Apple's statement; more firmware updates; LaCie comments; recommendations; more

Our reports on FireWire hard drive problems with Panther continue today with updated announcements from Apple, additional statements and firmware updates from drive vendors, comments and information ...
CNET

Determining whether or not a FireWire drive is Mac-bootable

The ability to boot from an external FireWire hard drive is invaluable, allowing the use of full system clones (as can be created by SuperDuper! and other utilities) in the event of a drive failure, ...
Ars Technica

WD Firewire Drive not seen by iMac when directly connected

I picked up a 1Tb WD Firewire drive and when I directly connect it to my iMac(2.8g last years model) the Firewire bus constantly resets and the drive does not mount nor does Disk Utility see it and ...
MacTech

FireWire Direct offers new DVD-R products

FireWire Direct announced today that it is now offering the Pioneer A05 DVD-R/RW drive as an internal “bare drive” unit. The internal drive (US$325) offers 4x DVD writing speed and works with Apple’s ...