Re: WD My Book 2TB won't play nice

2015-07-01 Thread gbud
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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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WD My Book 2TB won't play nice

2015-07-01 Thread smac0031
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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