External FireWire Drives and Mac OS X 10.3.6 Update, a Problem for Some?

According to reports on the web (e.g. MacInTouch), some people are having problems with mounting external FireWire drives after applying the 10.3.6 updater to their main computer. We have not seen that problem with a half dozen or so upgrades to PowerMac G4's, PowerBooks and Power Mac G5s with attached external FireWire 400 drives. So we expect that there is not a general problem with 10.3.6 and FireWire 400 drives. No pattern has emerged from the reports that we can discern. However, we don't have any fast FireWire 800 drives which originally had a firmware problem with Mac OS X 10.3. [Dana Baggett]