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July 20, 2005
Unfixing Microsoft's Firewire "fix"
As we pointed out, that highly problematic SP2 patch for Windows XP caused some major problems for Firewire users. In some cases Firewire drives won't work at all. In others, Microsoft's kindly slowed them down from 400Mb per second to 100Mb per second, which comprehensively defeats the purpose of paying extra for Firewire capability, wouldn't you say?
A reader - thanks Paul - who was hit by the problem referred us to a handy Firewire site that offers links to firmware fixes for Windows XP SP2, if your Firewire device uses the Oxford chipset.
As it happens, some Mac users have also been having problems with Firewire under OS X 10.3.6. There's a fix for devices that use the Initio chipset here.
Posted by cw at July 20, 2005 02:34 PM
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