I tried updating the firmware on my Western Digital My Book Home Edition 500-GB drive with the updater "WD_MB_Home_1028 (1.02)". The progress bar seemed to slow down when it was almost finished and, a minute or so later I looked again and the progress bar had started again from the left, with another "erasing flash" message and then something like "retrying ...". Then progress bar froze around the middle. After waiting a very long time, I quit the program. Now the drive is not recognized as a drive by any program, regardless of whether it is connected by USB or by FireWire. Here's what shows up on System Profiler, depending on which connection is used:
>FireWire Bus: > > Maximum Speed: Up to 800 Mb/sec > >Unknown Device: > > Manufacturer: Unknown > Model: Unknown > Maximum Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec > Connection Speed: Unknown >USB Device: > > Version: ff.ff > Bus Power (mA): 500 > Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec > Product ID: 0x8000 > Vendor ID: 0x0928 It's pretty clear that the case's firmware has been clobbered. But I'm wondering if the drive's firmware might be OK, so that I could read it if I took it out of the case. Any thoughts? - Aaron P.S. For now, I'm not wanting advice on the warranty issue. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
