WD Hard Drive Switching On/Off All Day Long

Hi,
Has anyone got a Western Digital My Book connected to their Mac for use with Time Machine? I have, and the fact that it keeps switching off and on throughout the day is really annoying me. I spent all this money to get a completely silent iMac, and I have this hard drive ruining the silence by spinning down and up again.
Is there any way to set these WD My Book drives so that they just stay on (with the disk spinning) all the time your Mac is turned on? If my Mac is on, I want my WD My Book drive to be on with its disk spinning.

Hey There.
Was having the same issues.
Called WD.
They have recently posted Firmware updates for the studio drives.
They also have firmware updates for older mybook drives.
The firmware updates address firewire issues!
Just applied the updates.
My data was not lost.
Main WD Download site:
http://support.wdc.com/download/
Studio Firmware Update
http://support.wdc.com/download/?cxml=n&pid=39&swid=60
MyBook Pro Firmware Update
http://support.wdc.com/download/?cxml=n&pid=21&swid=65
Enjoy!

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