Problems with WD external drives

[treehorn]

I'm not sure if this is a MacPro or System 10.5.2 issue or something else, but...

Got my new MacPro on Thursday. When I got it, I plugged in all my drives to figure out what gets daisy chained where until I get my PCI Sonnet Firewire card. All my drives worked great, no problems (1 Lacie, 1 G-Tech, 2 WD). I ejected the two WDs from the Finder window and unplugged them. Then proceeded to install and update all software (FCS, OSX 10.5.2, Photoshop CS2, etc). Aside from 10.5.2 everything I installed was in my old IMac.

Since then, I haven't been able to get either of my WD drives to work. One won't even power up. The one that does power up won't mount and looking at it using Disc Utility shows the drive as existing, but all options to repair/access it are greyed out.

I checked the WD website and there were a few MyBook updates for firmware, button manager, drive manager, none of which seem to have any effect.

Is anybody else having this problem?

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[treehorn]

Here's the newest (and weirdest) thing about this...neither work in any other computer either. Not on my IMac running leopard or my Powerbook running Tiger. When I try to fix the one My Book with DiscWarrior, it comes up but says it can't be fixed as it isn't a supported file system - it's coming up as MS/DOS-PC

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[island]

Try them using the USB interface and see if that makes a difference, if not try another firewire cord.

[treehorn]

I've tried connecting them via firewire and usb directly and daisy chained. And have swapped out cords left and right (ones that work with other drives have no effect)

it gets even stranger...while DiscWarrior wouldn't let fix it, checking it seemed to made it mountable again, so I can at least copy everything to another disc, then re-format it, and see if it works.

What I find odd is that both WD drives spazzed out at the exact time (and one hasn't recovered...my Time Machine, fortunately, since I can just copy everything from my old computer again)

[BeyondMountains]

both of my wd drives work fine. 1tb and 750gb with 10.5.2. I just plug them in and there they are, ready to go.

[ErikAndre]

One of my FW400 500GB (WD MyBook) drives went corrupt. It was my FCP Scratch Disk for a massive project I was working on, only 7 months old. I didn't discover it was corrupt until I received my MacPro and attempted to pull all the data from it to move to my new internal scratch disk. I since had to purchase Data Rescue II and am in the process of pulling data off it.

Blasted WD. :mad: