Oxford922 Panther bug . Should I upgrade to Tiger ?

I am running out of space and need a new external drive . The Fantom Titanium was recommended on another thread but at their site .
http://www.fantomdrives.com/
I found this warning .
http://www.micronet.com/support/fwpanthercomp.asp
I have a tiger disc for my powerbook . Should I upgrade or was this fixed with 10.3.9 and could I even upgrade with just 3gigs left ?
Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.6) Panther eMac

I feel like I'm barking up a lot of trees with no info in them .
I'm hearing from a lot of disscussions that the drives with the Oxford 911 or 922 chipsets are essential for audio storage . One guy says he likes the Fantom Titanium but they don't have the Oxford . The Glyph seems like the best for audio but it is just way to expensive .
Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.6) Panther eMac
Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.6) Panther eMac

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Is it in my best interest to just upgrade to tiger to avoid as many problems as possible, or should I buy leopard since the two cost the same?
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http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1225&start=0
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I've tried some of the suggestions I've found for the iBook 'wake from sleep' postings on macfixit.com and here - resetting NVRAM and removing a few of the .plist files. This didn't seem to help.
I would greatly appreciate help in resolving this issue. I've been a Mac owner since the original Macintosh (it's still in my house) and am frustrated that this is the first problem I've encountered.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Thanks. In fact I had bought a new keyboard and mouse (Macally) and sure enough, if I unplug it before it reboots, the CD drive door stays closed and I can boot from a CD! I did not try any of the other stuff. Is there any way to get it to stop this? Why does a USB peripheral cause the CD to eject anyway? Would love to know!
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I've spend a bit of time setting up various things using Fink (and to a lesser extent DarwinPorts) on Panther.
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I keep reading the upgrade methodology... supposedly using the Snowleopard boxed set. The hype makes it sound as if it's capable of upgrading an Inel or PPC equipped Mac. That just sounds too good to be true, so here I am to ask for some experience based advice to make this potential change a little easier. Which disks should I purchase to make this upgrade as easy as possible?
Should I upgrade my RAM? Would an upgrade to more than the existing 512 meg be advised, or is it pretty mandatory? I am always fighting byte-bulge, as it is, so would an upgrade to a HDD larger than the existing 80 gigs be worth the extra money? Any particular size/brand to consider more than others?
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Sorry, no G4 or any PPC Mac is going to be able to use Snow Leopard/10.6.x
10.5.8 is the most your G4 can use, & yes, max out the RAM.
Leopard requirements/10.5.x...
    * Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (867MHz or faster) processor
minimum system requirements
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    * DVD drive for installation
    * 9GB of available disk space (I say 30GB at least)
You have to call Apple & likely ask for a Product Specialist to get it, if they still have it! Helps to tell them you have an iPad/iPhone & you can't run 10.6.
There are workarounds if the 867MHz is the only hangup...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/leopardassist/
BTW, 10.3.x is Panther, 10.4.x is Tiger, 10.5.x is Leopard, 10.6.x is Snow Leopard & not PPC compatible.

Reinstall Panther or upgrade to Tiger?

Per earlier post, I'm having networking trouble due to the fact that I accidentally changed the name of my powerbook so now windows machine sees my mac but says the path to access it is invalid. Anyway, was thinking about upgrading to Tiger if I do a complete reinstall anyway. Pros/cons?? Also, if you had a choice between keeping Panther and adding RAM (I only have the 256 that came with the mac or upgrading to Tiger and keep 256, what would you do! Thanks for input!!!
12 Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.7) 256 RAM

Dan:
I concur with Don in that the first thing you should think of doing is to upgrade your RAM. An upgrade of OS will not solve all your problems. Panther is an excellend OS. Indeed, there are a number of people in these pages who have gone back to Panther from Tiger.
My suggestion is to first upgrade your RAM and update to 10.3.9. Work with that for a while, and see how it works for you. Getting the latest and best is not always the best thing for everyone. I, myself have tried Tiger and am back to Panther.
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Don't fix it if it ain't broken.
Unless you DO have problems, don't update.
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Hi. Thanks in advance for reading my thread.
Here's my dilemma.
Lately I've been unable to use certain programs and view some web pages which I believe is due to my OS being 10.3.7. For example, I can't upgrade to Quicktime 7 (which I need to perform some tasks - including fully use my video Ipod I think) and I've been having programs "Unexpectedly Quit" quite often. (I do repair permissions consistently and I use Mac Janitor weekly).
However, the main programs I run, Avid Xpress Pro 4.6, Final Cut Pro 4.5 HD, Adobe Photoshop CS 8, Microsoft Office 2004 all are running pretty well.
It appears that if I upgrade to 10.3.9 I will be able to upgrade to Quicktime 7.0 which would be helpful. But, upgrading scares me because I have 3 random firewire drives and I've read about problems with certain chip sets etc. In fact, in the recent past I lost a couple drives due (I think) to a chip set issue with a particular enclosure.
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Upgrading would be a good idea. You can download the 10.3.9 Combo Upgrader directly from Apple's website (www.apple.com/support/downloads/.)
Photoshop and Office will work OK. I believe so should FCP. As for Avid you should check with their website to determine if the version you are using is compatible. If not you should be able to upgrade.
Upgrading to Tiger may be another matter. Although Adobe apps and Office will work OK, I'm not sure about FCP or Avid. Upgrades may be necessary for compatibility. Upgrading to Tiger will require purchasing the Tiger retail installer package.
To avoid any Firewire problems disconnect all FW drives before updating. Also be sure to do the following:
Boot from your OS X Installer. Be sure to use the installer for the version of OS X you have installed. After the installer loads select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (or Utilities menu if using Tiger.) After DU loads select your OS X volume from the list on the left, click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now shutdown the computer for a couple of minutes and then restart normally.
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Hi there,i have a powerbook G4 1GB,cpu speed 1.5 ghz,512KB,running panther 10.3.3.Could this be upgraded to tiger or leopard?thank you

Hi
I have a powerbook g4
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1 gb ddr
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Could this be upgraded to tiger or leopard
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