[ale] Anyone using a Western Digital external HD ?

[Courtney Thomas]

Mike,

Thanks for the reply.

How do you install it and under which Linux flavor ?

Courtney

On 11/16/2011 11:00 AM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 05:22 -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
>> If yes, under what system and how should it be installed and used, please ?
>> I've been given one [500MB MyBook, USB&  Firewire capable] that the
>> former owner says will only intermittently shutdown or be recognized
>> by Windows Vista, so would like to use it myself if I can figure out
>> what's been the problem under winders.
> IIRC, some of those WD MyBooks had problems with the spindown logic a
> few years back.  I don't recall anything about Vista but Vista had its
> own sets of problems so all bets are off there.  I've also seen some
> comments about iMacs and the MyBooks.  I seem to recall some comment
> from back then that the USB interface would disconnect when the drive
> would spin down but, in retrospect, that really doesn't seen to make
> much sense to me now.  If you do a google search on "western digital my
> book linux spin down" you'll find lots of commentary on it with some
> suggesting to set the spindown time to fairly long values.
>
> I've got some 750's that have never given me a problem under Linux.  I
> guess I got lucky.  It was shortly after I bought those that I started
> hearing that some people where having problems.  Mine DON'T have the
> firewire port, though, so it may have been that particular model, which
> was slightly more expensive when I was looking at them side by side.  I
> bought these when Best Buy was clearing them out to make way for the
> newer models that included the firewire port.
>
> I would hook it up and give it a shot and see how it behaves.  If you
> need to, set the spindown timeout to a long value and see if that makes
> an impact.  If it's been given to you, I would guess you don't have
> anything to lose from playing with it and seeing how it acts.
>
>> Thank you,
>> C.Thomas
> Regards,
> Mike
>
>
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