Comments on: Tiger woes

By: Mark Boulton

Mark Boulton — Wed, 18 May 2005 04:50:44 +0000

Bugger. The upgrade didn’t fix the problem. It did to a certain extent, in that my Aiport card now recognises my wireless network on startup, gets the right IP, but then refuses to connect. It thinks it’s connected, but it just isn’t working. It then promptly dies when put to sleep.

Looks like I’ll be waiting for the next update :-(

By: Chris Harrison

Chris Harrison — Tue, 17 May 2005 23:46:50 +0000

I’m sorry for cross-posting this, but is your external Firewire HD a Maxtor One-TOuch? If yes… hook it up via USB instead. There is an issue with this drive and Firewire and Tiger… where the drive no longer mounts. Hook it up via USB and it’ll work just fine. Trust me, I had this same problem on TWO macs with TWO different Maxtor One-Touch drives hooked up via Firewire. In both cases, switching them to USB fixed the mount issue. No data was lost. I’m hoping this isn’t too late….

By: Mark Boulton

Mark Boulton — Tue, 17 May 2005 22:57:28 +0000

Veerle - Back in the good ‘ole days of OS9, I used to use Norton quite a lot to sort out my disk and never really had a problem with it. Last week I really was desperate for anything to sort it out. Techtool actually went much further than Disk Warrior in identifying (if not fixing) the problem.

Jon - Thanks for the heads up, I’ll get that installed tonight and hopefully things will be hunkey-dorey once again in the Boulton household.

By: Jon Hicks

Jon Hicks — Tue, 17 May 2005 20:18:37 +0000

Seems to have so far!

By: Jon Hicks

Jon Hicks — Tue, 17 May 2005 19:36:08 +0000

Well, 10.4.1 is no out – lets see if it cures our wireless woes…

By: Veerle Pieters

Veerle Pieters — Wed, 11 May 2005 19:44:07 +0000

One good tip is to never trust Techtool or Norton when a disk is concerned. Use Disk Warrior instead. That application has resurrected disks that other programs couldn’t. It is one of the best tools available.

By: Mark Boulton

Mark Boulton — Tue, 10 May 2005 05:05:35 +0000

Josh - I’m still getting to grips with Tiger, I haven’t spent that much time on it yet. Overall it seems quite a bit faster than Panther on my iMac G5, it certainly starts up a lot of lot faster.

I’m liking Mail (apart from the dodgy icons, which I’ve now changed) and have switched from Thunderbird.

I’ll let you know more, the more I use it. First impressions are, if you forget the wireless issues, good. :-)

By: Josh Jarmin

Josh Jarmin — Sun, 08 May 2005 13:28:11 +0000

I just upgraded to Tiger and my wireless DLink router is working just fine with it. Other than the wireless issues, how do you like Tiger?

By: Mark Boulton

Mark Boulton — Fri, 06 May 2005 18:19:20 +0000

Jon - After looking through the Apple forums it seems to be a pretty well documented screw up with Tiger, although inconsistant. Some people, like you, are having their connection drop, some are having a terrible signal and speed, and some, like me, aren’t getting anything but self-assigning IP’s for the Airport card.

Looks like Apple may release an update in a couple of weeks though, hopefully this will sort it out.

Damn my impatience!

By: Jon Hicks

Jon Hicks — Fri, 06 May 2005 06:51:31 +0000

I’m having the same problems with my set up Mark (same as yours), although my IP address isn’t being reset. The connection will just drop for a while, and then come back again. My wife’s powerbook is still on Panther and its connection is constant! Grrr!

By: Mark Boulton

Mark Boulton — Fri, 06 May 2005 04:18:37 +0000

It’s all gone very wrong now.

I backed up all my stuff to an external FW drive. Then wiped my iMac, installed Tiger (wireless still not working, giving up until Apple release a fix), then went to put all my backed up data on the freshly installed iMac and the FW drive isn’t being recognised.

Reminds me why I love computers.

Pass me a pint, I’m in for a long night…