Ok Matt,
I understand, thanks for posting back.
Cheers,
Ronni
On 03/11/2010, at 1:02 PM, Matt Falvey wrote:
> Hi Ronni, I did not try the "Terminal Command", I am still a little bit
> frightened of going there, the warnings put me off and I really don't
> understand it.
>
> But that said I did create and maintain a website using TNG and some of that
> "text stuff", but as it was in cyberspace and not on my Mac, I reasoned that
> any damaged would not come back to haunt me and I did get away with it. But
> it did not instil me with the confidence to muck around in terminal, the
> warnings are enough!
>
> Thanks
>
> Matt
>
>
> On 03/11/2010, at 12:37 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
>
>> Hi Matt,
>>
>> Glad to hear you have 'hidden' the 'WD SmartWare VCD' Disc icon from your
>> desktop.
>> Most people tend to just ignore it especially as you can't actually delete
>> it from the drive (as it is in the Firmware), only 'Hide' it.
>> But, Like you, it annoyed me sitting on my Desktop, so I just had to 'hide'
>> it ;-)
>>
>> Did you try the 'Terminal Command' first?
>> Because as I mentioned below in my previous email:
>>
>>>>> 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' ;-(
>>
>> Just interested if you did try the 'Terminal Command', but found you still
>> had to do all the other rigmarole ;-)
>> Also VCD Manager is Virtual CD Manager …i.e. they are the same.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ronni
>>
>> On 03/11/2010, at 11:45 AM, Matt Falvey wrote:
>>
>>> 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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