On 3/24/2010 4:14 AM, Joseph McAllister wrote:
I have a 1 TB MyBook, and although it still works (at times), if my
iMac goes to sleep for any length of time, when I awaken the iMac, the
drive does not. Frequently, when Time Machine started to back up to it
(it was my main BU drive at one time) it would not be able to "find"
the drive, even though it was up and running. If I turned it off using
the switch at the rear panel of the drive, then turned it back on, it
would then mount to the desktop and back up fine - until the next
time. So, I do not use it anymore, because, as Western Digital says,
it was no longer responding to a wake up signal. They said I could
ship it to them and they would replace it.
I never have, so it sits, a full backup of my drives & system as of
last summer sometime.
Just as my old 300 GB Western Digital sits nearby, a Back-up testament
to my old Dual 1 GIG G4 Quicksilver. The files on it have been
transferred to other drives, making it a backup from 3 years ago,
maybe 4 yrs. An army of older G4, G3, and PowerMac units are scattered
around in Tower and Laptop form.
I have a planned use for each and every one. I knew you'd be thinking
bad thoughts of me if I said otherwise! <grin>
Joe
I'm sure they'd make fine boat anchors.
On Mar 24, 2010, at 00:01 , Brian Walters wrote:
Let us know how it pans out. I have one of those which still wakes up
when the computer does, but I guess the time will come when it won't.
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:51 -0500, "Stan Halpin"
<[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks Rob. Mine is a bit different from the couple on the site site
you
pointed to, and the others linked to that, but it did confirm my
suspicion that WD hides their catches/screws/etc. under labels, rubber
feet, etc. With that and a bit of judicious force I have the outter
case
off. I'll deal with the rest tomorrow.
stan
On Mar 23, 2010, at 10:26 PM, Rob Studdert wrote:
On 24/03/2010, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote:
Questions:
Do I assume that the drive interface within the case is eSATA?
Does anyone have a clue how to open one of these beasties? I have
a power saw but am not sure where to start cutting. Seriously,
there are no screw heads etc. visible to me.
Hi Stan,
SATA or PATA (standard old parallel IDE) depending on the age I would
expect. I haven't opened one yet but I expect that it's glued
together, not the type of thing you'd generally consider attempting to
repair ;-)
A starting point perhaps:
http://carltonbale.com/western-digital-my-book-opening-the-case-removing-the-drive
Cheers,
Joseph McAllister
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