FireWire 800 bug in 10.4.9, 10.4.10 and higher? Leopard?

Hi there,
I'm not completely sure if this topic belongs in here, so sorry if it doesn't. I hope Apple reads these forums too...
I have a MacBook Pro 2.33 Ghz 15", running Tiger 10.4.10.
I bought a LaCie d2 Quadra 500 GB to be able to backup my data better and faster with FireWire 800. But while my other 2 LaCie-drives work perfectly through FW 800, this drive doesn't mount and Tiger tells me to initialize it, because it can't be read. Initializing doesn't help, DiskUtility isn't able to do anything with the drive and DiskWarrior tells me there's something wrong with the drive.
The drive works perfectly through both FireWire 400 and USB 2.0. When I boot my MacBook Pro from another external drive with Tiger 10.4.8, the drive also works perfectly through FireWire 800 and when I boot my MacBook Pro from the Installation-DVD.
I updated my other external drive to 10.4.9 and then the drive could not even be mounted when booted from the other external drive.
I had never tried something like the following before, but I tried to move some older extentions from 10.4.8 to 10.4.10 and was able to mount the drive through FW 800, but not without warnings that the extentions were not installed correctly. So I downloaded Pacifist and tried to see which extention would be the problem...
I have spent many many hours, but wasn't able to find the specific extention, but when I was about to give up, I used Pacifist to move the following extentions from my Installation-DVD to the system on my internal drive:
- IOFireWireAVC.kext
- IOFireWireFamily.kext
- IOFireWireIP.kext
- IOFireWireSBP2.kext
- IOFireWireSerialBusProtocolTransport.kext
- AppleFWAudio.kext
And 1 FrameWork:
- FWAUserLib.framework
And it worked. The drive shows up through FireWire 800 at last. While I'm very happy about it, I'm also affraid that the next update to 10.4.11 breaks it again... And what about Leopard...
Please Apple, will you please have a look at this, so that it works again with the latest updates and under Leopard, because I want to use this drive for Time Machine as soon as Leopard arrives. Thanks.
Best Regards,
JeePee

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Why that probably works is that the installation DVD files are unalterable. Chances are the reason why your problem manifested itself in the first place is that your devices hooked up via Firewire either have a firmware update that is too old to be recognized, or data corruption in those particular files you pulled over. The updates themselves don't break Firewire. The vendors who haven't tested their firmware with the latest operating system is what breaks it, and corrupt data files break it. Trying to tell the difference between the two is difficult. LaCie's Mac support is firewire AT lacie.com. Contact them and ask if their drives that are your model have been tested to work with 10.4.10. If they have, then you have some evidence your files got corrupt somehow. If they haven't, you can be sure that they made a mistake in trying to follow specs with their last firmware update.

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