So there I was, feeling all proud of my diagnosis. Must be the 10.4.x FireWire drivers screwing my hard drive up. "Works just fine with Panther".
It stopped working with Panther today.
With no back-up in place for my server since there's no longer an external drive connected for it to back up to, I had to come up with another system. Taking advantage of Retrospect's network backup facilities, I migrated everything over to my Panther PowerBook partition and attached my external drive to it.
And my hard drive froze up. Repeatedly. At the same point. System.log kept getting errors like "Missing self ID for node 0!" and "FWOHCI Bad selfIDs, issuing bus reset (retry 1)".
In other words, doubleplus ungood stuff. Of course, I hadn't had Retrospect installed on Panther before, so I figured maybe that's what caused the change. So I deleted the Retrospect CD filesystem extension, rebooted, and now everything's fine.
But the question is, if Retrospect is the problem after all this, why didn't my hard drive work properly when connected to my Retrospect-free Tiger partition on my PowerBook? Perhaps I was a victim of the 10.4.2 bug there. Time for some more experiments, I suspect.
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