The Inquirer reports that the new service pack for Windows XP causes some problems with Firewire speeds. Although that sounds bad, it probably won't affect 90% of the people because it only seems to affect devices that use the new Firewire 800 device. Itr seems that WinXP SP2 causes Firewire 800 devices to run a bit closer to Firewire 100 speeds (roughly 1/4 the speed of regular Firewire).
So if you have shiny new Firewire 800 devices and have been holding off in installing Service Pack 2, you may want to hold off a bit longer. The Inquirer says you can fix the new driver problems introduced in SP2 by installing the old SP1 Firewire drivers over the new service pack 2 ones. You can probably expect Microsoft to release newer drivers eventually that will fix this problem though.
[Via Engadget]
Posted by peter on August 13, 2004 at 03:34 PM