[ale] Anyone using a Western Digital external HD ?

[Ron Frazier]

Hi Courtney,

I know you wrote this to Michael W.  However, I just wanted to let you 
know I posted a reply to your message at 2:42 AM today (11/17/11) with a 
great deal of detail which should help.

Sincerely,

Ron

On 11/17/2011 05:02 PM, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> 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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