WD Smartware is mounting unknown disks

I have a WD Passport. It used to do this annoying thing, where in addition to the actual drive, it would load a virtual vcd drive containing the smartware software too. (This was common to a lot of WD products). To get rid of this, I installed the WD Software on my mac, and changed the settings to that it no longer displayes the VCD. This made the VCD dissappear, but now it shows a new drive called "Boot OS X" , everytime I plug my WD drive in!
I don't know what this drive is! And now I have the same equivalent problem to that stupid vcd drive popping up! When I plug my WD drive in, all I want to see is only one icon for the WD drive. Right now I have "Boot OS X" , and "Keanu's Time Machine". I only want "Keanu's Time Machine" to pop up when I plug in the drive.

Keanu,
I have spoken to WD about their crapware-firmware in their Passport drives till I finally realized that they simply don't care that it frustrates advanced users. That particular line of drives is made for the schlub who doesn't even know how to use the OS to perform backups.
Nowadays, if you are going to go WD, take a look at the WD Elements portable line. They are simple enclosures that give you all you need, a drive and an interface in a package. Just stay away form the Passports until the bean counters at WD realize that users don't want their "extras".

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Post the entire kernel command line you are using (/proc/cmdline).
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I think I've found the solution to this problem.
http://superuser.com/questions/19426/im-unable-to-mount-a-dmg-getting-a-no-mount able-filesystems-error
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