the WD drives have a nasty feature called sleep & that's what they
like to do, if there is no acces within a few minutes after the last
access then the drive goes to sleep & depending on the firewire setup
you may not be able to wake it up
i have 2 WD books which behave in that way, but if its at sleep & i
click onto a file in it (window opened before sleep) then it takes
approx 10s to get a response, if i'm correct the included software
should be able to change the sleep settings, i don't dare to install
the wd software on a allready partially filled drive, so i'm not sure
if that works
James
On 24/07/2010, at 11:32, Jon Davison wrote:
Hi everyone. I have two problems, as usual. So I would welcome any
suggestions here;
1. Has anyone had any problems with these 1TB WD drives? mine has
always done odd things, like crash, freeze the system etc. So now I
have wiped the drive in TechTool Pro 4.
After getting info, I find this;
Capacity: 931.39 GB
Available: 513.2 GB
Used: 418.19 GB
The drive is empty (well it appears so) so am just wondering what
is taking up this space? I tried to verify and/or repair in Disk
Utility but it says that it cannot unmount the drive.
So not sure what is happening. I wanted to erase and reformat the
drive to see if it can still be used, but it appears there may be a
problem at the root level?
Any clues re the above drive?
My system is;
MacPro 2 x 2.66 GHz dual/2GB/1TB/10.5.1
2. I cannot update the OS software or any other on the above
machine. It just stalls, I can wait all day and it does nothing.
ps; Thank you Bob for taking the time to look at my 2 x G5's with
the RAM problem. The cases are now happy in their new incarnation
as letter boxes!
Thanks
Jon
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