Western Digital My Book Pro Problem

I have a new My Book Pro 500GB hard drive attached to my iMac, connected through the firewire 800 sockets. The drive has been reformated as Mac OS Journaled. On waking the iMac from sleep, the hard drive has dis-mounted and there is an error message warning that the drive wasn't put away properly.
Has anyone had the same problem and solved it?

den.thed wrote:
Hello GeeJay
You should eject/unmount the external before sleeping from the drop down menu as that sleeps both the display and computer.....
Dennis
You should also be able to unmount the MyBook drive by pressing the big button on the front. If this doesn't work for you, you may need to download and install the driver from WD. There was a version of it already on the MyBook when you first used it but i) it would have been the Windows version and b) you have since reformatted of course. It's easy enough to download it again from WD though.
Good Luck

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My MyBook Pro 500Gb has been entirely trouble-free for me. It's a little noiser than I was expecting this fanless drive to be (I cannot hear my WD 320Gb internal unless I really strain) but much quiter than my previous external box.
I've seen a few concerning posts (link) on these forums though so have a read of them, but there don't seem to be any more than any other brand of drive attracts.
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Anyone got one of these external drives? Are they good?
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I have the 350GB My Book Premium Edition
Has USB and both FireWire connections. I use it to back up my aging iMac and my new MacBook. You cannot have both connected at the same time however. I schedule regular backups using Backup app. (only works if you have a .Mac account), otherwise I keep it turned off when not in use.
They are getting cheaper by the week also. I got mine at Circuit City for $189 w/ $50 rebate that took an amazing 3 weeks (not 6-8) to arrive. I've seen the 500GB one advertised for around this price, but it's probably only the usb interface version.
It's completely unobtrusive sitting on the desk, and does indeed look like a "book" on a shelf.
The Backup Gods will eventually catch up with you if you do not backup as either habit or at least once a year! These mega GB external hdd's are a great bargain. Data recovery costs start at about a grand.
If you are going to be using it as your main drive, I cannot attest to it's durablility. I use mine strictly for backups.
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Flat Panel iMac 15" LCD Mac OS X (10.4.10) 800MHz Power PC G4 256<BSDRAM 56K</span>
Flat Panel iMac 15" LCD Mac OS X (10.4.10) 800MHz Power PC G4 256<BSDRAM 56K</span>

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I also had problem accessing my WD MyBookLive after upgrading to Maverick.
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Yep I have the very same.
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No specific idea since your drive worked previously with the same system.
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Thanks, it is an external hdd (Western Digital My Book Mac) connected to my old time machine (too small to fit everything on way) via the usb cable. The time machine is connected wirelessly to my network. Unfortunately I can not see the sparse bundle files anymore.
Just for the sake of clarification, that's a +Time Capsule,+ Apple hardware combining a wireless router and hard drive. +Time Machine+ is the Apple software that does backups, to various destinations, including +Time Capsules.+
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Ah, yes, that's a different critter. Time Machine stores backups differently when they're done directly vs. over a network. The backups done directly were stored in a Backups.backupdb folder at the top level of the drive; the ones done over your network have that folder placed inside an odd container called a +sparse bundle.+ You cannot switch back and forth.
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Hey there everyone, I thought I would write about my Western Digital My Book experience for two reasons:
1. To see if anyone had any success getting the firewire option to work properly on their Intel based iMac.
2. To deter anyone else from buying this drive if you plan on using firewire.
When I bought the 320GB My Book Premium Edition from Best Buy I thought I had a great product.... why? Because the backup software included was easy to use and manage. I scheduled my first backup in a matter of minutes. As time went on I realized that this thing was just not going to play nice.
After failing to get the Firewire connection to work I decided to contact WD's customer support department to see what they could do.
My first call the Customer Support rep. ended with him saying that there was a known issue with the firewire cables that shipped with the product.
"We'll get one out to you in about 3 - 5 business days."
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My brother came over the other day grabbed my so-called bad firewire and plugged in his external drive and it worked flawlessly. Bummer for me.
*A side note:* There is a firmware upgrade on the WD site (Version 1.08a) that is supposed to resolve issues with the firewire unique indentifier. I tried it on both drives and that didn't work either.

You and me both, unfortunately. I'm on my third WD My Book (although I have the 500GB version) and something like my sixth firewire cable. I called their support line last time and the support guy seemed extremely confident that a new firewire cable "will definitely fix my problem", but I'm highly skeptical of it.
Same story though- USB works without a hitch, but both Firewire 400 and Firewire 800 don't work. Drives don't show up in Disk Utility or Terminal with any Firewire connection. I've gone through 5-10 hours of Apple phone support to no avail.
The weird thing is that the drive doesn't work on my Rev A. MacBook either. Also, I can't use target disk mode over Firewire between my new 20" iMac and my MacBook (which was previously not a problem with my G5 iMac). At this point I'm getting worried that the original cable fried one or both of my Firewire ports on my iMac and/or my MacBook, although I haven't had the time or devices to test that theory yet. I'm not sure what the prospects of getting a refund for my My Book will be (since it's 6-8 months old since it was working on my G5 iMac for awhile), but it might have to come down to that eventually.

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