[From John Rowe] I'm reaching out to your Mac OS X + Palm users here in order for some help. Just before I got my first LifeDrive, I moved over to Mac OS X as my desktop OS of choice. The LifeDrive never worked absolutely flawlessly with the Powerbook but it worked well enough to get my work done. It'd take a few attempts at plugging and unplugging the two before syncing would happen, and leaving drive mode on for any length of time was a sure fire way of hard crashing the Mac. But I found workarounds for those problems - I could force quit the background listening application to make syncing come back to life and remembering to eject the LifeDrive would stop it from hard crashing Mac OS X. With these I could convince it to do it's job most of the time, and in the current dodgy world of computer hardware that's sometimes all you can ask for! In truth, drive mode was one of the most used features of my LifeDrive. I could fill the LifeDrive to the brim with source code for the software I was working on, documents to work on whenever I had a spare moment or two and movies (for TCPMP and then CorePlayer). I loved sitting in a plane with my LifeDrive watching TV shows off my media center. That lasted until the update to Mac OS 10.4.9. Now drive mode no longer works, instead it outputs a cryptic USB timeout error in the system log and just sits there (I believe it also mocks me a bit). I imagine the other palms with drive mode support such as the T5 and TX have the same problem. It took me a while - and a few hard resets - to tweak to the fact that it was caused by the 10.4.9 upgrade. So now I sit here, having to use Bluetooth and Wifi to get files backwards and forwards, and boy is that slow! I'm hoping that one of your more technical readers would have come up with a workaround for this problem - it's been irking me for some time - one of the best things about the LifeDrive was it's USB mass storage device ability.