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for Nas™.   Blue light weight short life often
come canned in a case!

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 6:30 PM, smac0031 <m.smurph...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried to expand my TiVo. I got a 2TB WD My Book drive which turned out
> to be USB 3.0. It won't work with my TiVo Premire. As the TiVo wants an
> eSata drive.
> I have had the model number for this eSata drive for quite some time, but
> when I went to buy it Amazon notified me there was a newer model a 2TB
> drive for
> the same price. So I bought it. It won't work with my TiVo so I moved to
> plan B which was to use it with my DA G4.
>
> In futzing around with it I found it had the windows something or other
> file system on it. So I reformatted it, but it won't make nice with the G4
> either as it messes up
> the sleep mode and it won't wake up and failing waking up it  won't find a
> boot drive on reboot. For the longest time my computer won't shut down or
> reboot from
> the Apple menu and I've pretty much given up trying that so if I want to
> reboot or shut down I use the buttons on the front of the computer.
>
> I'm pretty much thinking I will have to let this My Book drive sit until I
> get an Intel Mac, however, I noticed when I formatted this thing there were
> 4 different options
> to format this drive for a Mac using Disk Utility. Does this make a
> difference or is it as I suspect the ongoing boot issue with the USB port?
>
> Mark Murphy
>
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