Specifics of my own issue:
new iMac 20� (latest iteration, firmware up-to-date), OSX 10.6.2
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
Recently instaled Snow Leopard.
Purchased: WD My Book Studio 1Tb.
Has anyone tried connecting a WD My Book Studio Edition external hard drive to one computer via USB and to another computer via FireWire 800 simultaneously?
What are the chances that both computers would be able to access the drive simultaneously?
I am a frequent guest on this board and bought my first MBP two years ago. To set up TimeMachine, I just got this new hard drive:
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It works flawlessly and is quite fast with FW800. However, I only have it for two hours now and already find the flashing white LEDs really annoying. They distract me from working. I could use tape to cover the LEDs, but it would not look good and there would still bright light when it's dark in my room because I can't cover all of the smaller openings. I googled for a solution to disable the LEDs but only found this:
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Obviously, this is for the network edition only, you would have to set up a php-server and so on... to be honest, I don't know a thing about that stuff.
I am looking at the WD MyBook Studio Edition II 2 TB and have some questions I need answered before getting it. Perhaps someone who uses it with their mac knows the answers.I want to use it with the RAID1 configuration. As I understand it it will then be seen as a 1 TB drive to the operating system, and the 1 TB data will be mirrored on the dual 1 TB drives.1) Can the 1 TB RAID1 drive be partitioned into multiple logical partitions?2) Can the 1 TB RAID1 drive be formatted as NTFS?3) Can the 1 TB RAID1 drive be partitioned into multiple logical partitions formatted with different file systems?
View 15 Replies View RelatedI have a WD MyBook Studio Edition 1TB that's been OK for about a year, but recently it's been acting weird so I ordered an advance replacement from WD and am in the process of transferring all my stuff to the replacement drive. The old drive will read and write fine for a few seconds, then it just slows way down. For example, I am copying files over right now, and it just blazed through about 500 MB in a few seconds, and it's taken it about 15 minutes to get to 550 MB. Obviously something is wrong, but I'm looking for any advice on how to keep this thing alive or speed it up for just a few minutes while I get everything off of it.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to connect my WD ext. HD to my Router (FritzBox 7140) over USB and use an app to download torrents (like transmission) directly to my ext hdd and not to my macbook first???
View 1 Replies View RelatedJust got a WD My Book World Edition II 2TB. I would like to reformat this drive specifically for mac. It's sole purpose is to be used with Time Machine.
I currently have the drive connected to my IMAC via ethernet. Finder shows the external HD listed under Shared as MyBookWorld and another one as MyBookWorld-Backup. Time Machine preferences/select disk shows this drive as "WD_Backup on MyBookWorld-Backup".
Using DiskUtility.app the drive DOES NOT show up!
Should I send this drive back from where I ordered? Anyone have any experience with this drive? Should I even bother to reformat?
I have NOT installed the software that came with the drive? Why should I?
Reality: "Will perform initial backup with Apple Time Machine and before the next backup will enter sleep/standby mode. This will require you to manually drag the external hard drive icon to the trash, unplug the drive, shut down your computer, restart it, plug the drive back in, and backup with Apple Time Machine manually.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI cant get anything to work on my Western Digital My Book World Edition ii. I have it plugged in via ethernet to the back of my Airport Extreme. I'm trying to put all of my iTunes library on it so that my media can be played on my PS3 and other computers on my network.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI benched tested the new GTX 285 Mac Edition and the 8800 GT Mac Edition using X-Plane.
I used the same version (9.22 rc1) for both OS X 10.5.7 and Boot Camp WinXP.
I flew in North Dakota in order to eliminate as many objects and scenery as possible thereby making X-Plane as efficient as possible.
The flight was from Grand Forks (KGFK) to Crookston (KCKN). The length of the flight is 23.59 nautical miles and took 7 1/2 minutes.
I used a King Air B200 with a ground speed of 240 knots.
The renderings (1600 x 1200, 8xAA) and weather was exactly the same in both OS X and WinXP.
I flew three times for each video card and each operating system for a total of 12 flights. I averaged out the fps.
The 8800 GT Mac Edition is 2.3 times faster running under Boot Camp (WinXP) than the same 8800 GT running under Mac OS X 10.5.7.
Running under the same OS (Mac OS X 10.5.7), the GTX 285 Mac Edition is 2.7 times faster than the 8800 GT Mac Edition.
Running under the same OS (Boot Camp WinXP), the GTX 285 Mac Edition is 1.6 times faster than the 8800 GT Mac Edition.
My conclusion is the NVIDIA cards run much faster under Windows than they do with Mac OS X.
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This has probably already been asked before, but I can't find if it supports the 2006 Mac Pro models? Wait nevermind. It says that it supports 2008 and 2009 on Apple's website. Darn! I wonder if it will work anyway? If someone tries it please let me know.
So, with new UMBP, i saw the RAM is now expandable up to 8 gigs. Seeing as how it is practically the same hardware as the UMB, is the UMB expandable to 8 gigs??? I believe officially, they were only supported to 4, but if 8 is possible, I would love to get 8. Any thoughts/concrete knowledge on this topic?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI don't know if this will work but would it be possible to use the EFI firmware from the GT8800 and flash it onto the GTX285 mac Edition? or something? to make it work on the Macpro 1,1 (2006-2007 Mac Pro Users)
View 11 Replies View RelatedWhen Windows 7 arrives on October 22, assuming you're updating to it: Which edition best fits your needs? I'm a power user, so Windows 7 Ultimate is the obvious best fit for me.
View 24 Replies View RelatedThe 8800GT in my Mac Pro 1,1 just died. I'm back up with the 7300 for now.
Can I adapt the EVGA's GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition for use? It comes with the cables, and I more than willing to pay the extra $$$ to save myself hunting around for parts.
I'm also a bit confused about the 4870 upgrade. Does the Apple version work out of the box on my 1,1? If so, maybe that's the way to go for now?
Does anyone have any info on how loud the card is (compared to the ATI 4870, for instance)?
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Does anyone know how Boot camp and pre-activated copies of WIndows Xp are? DO the two mix well?
At my school we can buy these copies called Win XP sp2 Student edition since were students in a special program. This copy is supposed to be used to teach us the installation process of windows Xp on PCS but since i was able to buy one now i was wondering if it will work on my iMac.
I just got a Western Digital My Book World Edition II 2TB Hard Drive and I'm trying to get it all set up. I'm having some problems. 1. I wanted it to back up my iTunes library which is on a external hd. I cant figure out how to get it to do that. 2. I'd like to have my iTunes music, tv shows, and videos able to be played on my PS3.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm having the late 2009 Macbook. Trying to find out if bootcamp with XP Black Editions will work.
I am looking for a copy of either Windows 7 or Windows XP to put on a Mac. I keep seeing the words 'OEM' and 'System Builder's Edition' popping up in my search results. What do these phrases mean? Are these illegal copies of the operating system? Would these work for what I am trying to do?
View 6 Replies View RelatedFrom what I have gathered, an official betaversion of MSN8 was supposed to come out this month. Has it?
If so, where is these betas being released? I have not been able to find it.
As the title says, what exactly is Windows XP SP3 Mac OSX Glass Edition (2010).
View 7 Replies View RelatedSeveral fonts in my font book changed from a book file to a .doc at random, and now are not openable. How can I change them back, or at least get them to work?! This is for a business graphic arts networked system so an answer as soon as possible would be awesome.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI just got myself a WD My Book World Edition II 1TB ethernet HD. I can connect to it fine from my MacBook, but on my G5 its a different story. I see the drive on the Network. I then double click on it and get the prompt for the usergroup, username and password, type in the info and I get a error saying it can't see it. What am I missing? OS is 10.4.9 on G5 and 10.4.10 on MacBook.
Information:
Power Mac G5
Mac OS X (10.4.9)
Dual 2.0 GHz
Anyone running windows 98 second edition on your Mac Pro. I installed Fusion 3 and found in my old CD box, a copy of windows 98 SE and a bunch of old games like Duke nukem 3d etc..
Anyone able to get the sound driver to work. And where do you download the sound drives? VMware tools does not seem to include it.
I recently posted a question regarding an Apple DVI-ADC converter/adapter. It appeared the adapter wasn't working until I found out my ATI Radeon X1900 G5 Mac Edition, (which I just installeld), isn't functioning properly. In this screen shot you'll see the resolution is stuck at one setting with no options:
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And in this screen shot I was reminded about a problem with the data displayed in the system profile:[URL]However, the data/description error is not my main concern. I'm wondering if I need to download this driver to correct the card's malfunction?
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I was keeping this card as a spare, (since they're rare as gold). BTW, when I put the stock OEM GeForce 6600LE 128MB PCIe back in, I was able to adjust the screen resolutions for both a 20" Cinema Display, and a 17" LCD Studio Display, and got the DVI-ADC adapter to work.
my mac pro (2011 edition ) charger getting too hot while charging?
Info:
Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I've only had this drive for a few weeks, but I've noticed a tendency for the thing to always be running even when there's nothing for it to do. The head will click and gronk around continuously, the status light cycling over and over again. This generates a fair amount of heat in the drive after a while, and I imagine it'll wear down a lot faster if this keeps up. I've tried several different approaches to solve this, including many wipes and reloads. At its worst, the drive would grind away even if the computer was asleep or the drive disconnected from the computer. A few times this happened immediately following a reformat on a supposedly "erased" (but not zeroed) disk.
Nothing seemed to solve it. Western Digital recommended that I try plugging it into a different outlet, which I did. This has calmed it down somewhat, but the problem mostly persists, and I continue to get frequent "drive in use" errors when I attempt to eject the disk, even though as far as I can tell nothing is using it. One odd note: earlier today as it was chugging away, I quit the one program open besides the Finder (DragThing), and the churning immediately ceased. It's quiet for now, even after reopening DragThing, but I'm just waiting for something to get it all riled up again. I've observed this behavior on a Power Mac G5 running 10.5.8 and a March 2009 Core Duo iMac with 10.6.2. I'd really rather not ship it back to WD just yet.
So, I am trying to share my internet (USB modem) via ethernet to my PS3.
I am aware that I must enable Internet Sharing in System Preferences, but, the option is not present there.
