After much hype Mac OS X Lion 10.7 is finally out and ignoring the warnings I immediately updated. The warnings out there are about the non-compatibility of Lion with certain old programs expecially those written for PowerPC systems that will not work in Lion anymore because Rosetta, the program which made possible for PowerPC apps to run on Intel systems, has been removed.
I had no problems with apps so far, on the contrary this move may prove beneficial by letting me get rid of old and maybe unused programs.
To my surprise the worst problem has been about something completely different.
Like many other people I have an Ethernet NAS from Iomega, the StorCenter ix2-200, an entry level one. Upon rebooting into the new updated operating system, and trying to connect to the NAS, Lion complained.
Apparently the version of the AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) that is installed on the NAS is not compatible with Lion.
To work around this problem, and have access to your data despite the incompatibility you can use another protocol, CIFS (Common Internet File System): that’s what I did and it worked, despite some problems. The AFP protocol uses special system files to manage data, and this left me with a lot of misnamed files which are impossible to tell what’s in them. The only solution to this is for Iomega to release a new version of the firmware with an AFP version compatible with Lion, which according to Iomega support, which was unaware of the problem, won’t happen too soon.
