Hi, Thanks to Ronni and Peter. This took ages. The hardest part being that to
effect the changes I had to locate the original USB 2.0 cable that came with
the HD as no changes could be done on the normal firewire connection only the
USB 2.0.
I didn't need to instal VCD Manager though. Just instal the Firmware update
through the USB, after having turned off and disconnected everything in the
house. And as I didn't have VCD Manager installed I downloaded and installed
Virtual CD Manager instead to disable the VCD.
The really strange thing was though that, at each stage you need to disconnect
the power from the ext HD and then USB from it, by just pulling them out, for
it to "save", all the things you normally don't do when disconnecting a device.
Once again thanks very much for the help the desktop is looking nice and
clutter free again.
Matt Falvey.
On 02/11/2010, at 10:40 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
>
> On 02/11/2010, at 10:26 AM, Matt Falvey wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi, I have a Western Digital 1.5TB External Hard Drive that I am using for
>> storing video footage on. I have noticed an annoying icon that keeps
>> appearing on my desktop each time I mount the HD, apart from the HD icon
>> that is, and it is a WD SmartWare icon in the shape of a disk, that I can't
>> dismount/eject while I am using the HD. I can eject the HD and the WD
>> SmartWare icon remains. What makes it even more strange is that if I click
>> on the HD to show what is on the HD in find the WD SmartWare does not appear.
>>
>> I don't want to click it in case I launch what ever it is, just want to find
>> out what it is and get rid of it. Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Matt Falvey
>
> Hi Matt,
>
> The 'WD SmartWare VCD' disc icon always appears on the Desktop.
> The older ones you could erase the SmartWare.
>
> You have two choices … Just ignore the Virtual CD icon each time it appears
> when the drive is connected, OR you can do what I do when I setup these
> Drives for Clients.
>
> The WD SmartWare' (on these new Drives) is installed in the Firmware of the
> Drive, and impossible to erase, you can get it to 'Hide' (but it is still
> taking up space on the drive 237.5MB).
>
> I have managed to disable it, I'm not sure if the Terminal Command I ran
> first or the instructions below did the job.
> The Terminal Command I ran was:
> sudo sh -c "echo UUID=`diskutil info /Volumes/WD\ SmartWare/ | grep 'UUID' |
> awk '{print $NF}'` none hfs rw,noauto 0 0 >> /etc/fstab"
>
> Now thinking back I think it might have worked, as it did unmount the 'WD
> Smartware CD partition' ... I was expecting it to delete the space it takes
> up, but on re-reading the command is says unmount … so perhaps I didn't need
> to do all the following 'stuff' ;-(
>
> To Disable the 'WD SmartWare VCD' from showing on the desktop every time the
> WD Drive is connected you have to download.
> 1. A Firmware Update for the Drive.
> 2. Then download & Install a VCD Manager for Mac. (so it's damn well
> installed on my Mac)
>
> 3. Then Update the Drive Firmware (make sure it's the last updated 5/20/10)
> 4. Then Run the Virtual CD Manager.app , click configure the Drive, disable
> the VCD.
>
> Now at least the 'WD SmartWare Disc' doesn't appear on the desktop when the
> WD Drive is connected.
>
> Cheers,
> Ronni
>
> 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7
> 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm
>
> OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard
> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
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