10.4.6 May Break Compatibility with FW 800 drives

After testing a number of drives on three machines running 10.4.6, I believe that there is another Firewire mounting bug in OS X. Not sure what it's limited to but I am fairly certain it affects Smartdisk Firelite drives with FW800 ports (only), and that it seems to affect towers and not laptops.
If anyone has a FW800 Firelite drive that they formatted prior to 10.4.6, and can test it on a G5 or G4 tower with 10.4.6 installed, please report your findings back here. Similiarly if you have trouble, try the same drive on a Powerbook with 10.4.6 and see what you get.
After all this time I still can't believe there are so many hang-ups with FW mobile hard drives. Very frustrating... and expensive when you're replacing them, trying to find one that works.

Hi, Deadline.
You're not anywhere near the point where I'd recommend an Archive and Install. That's one of the "solutions of last resort" and isn't the kind of recommendation one should provide out of the gate.
Let's try the following:
1. Rule out some common troublemakers: Run the procedure specified in my "Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption" FAQ. Perform the steps therein in the order specified.
2. Let's see if Console can tell us more: Immediately after the problem occurs check the ends of these Console logs for clues.
Good luck!
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