the update is great and all, but you'd think they could get the firewire transfers up to speed.
You mean that literally? The firewire interface isn't running at its full speed, but
[knock wood] mine's been working 100% reliably. I still run md5 checks against the original and copied files, but so far so good. And now that I've found out how to unmount a firewire drive from the shell, my script to take md5sums and copy the files and md5 those can ensure that the firewire doesn't hang when the drive hasn't been addressed in some time.
- Jason