[markw10]

I bought a Western Digital MyBook 500 GB Hard Drive recently. I have it connected to my Airport Extreme Base Station and it works very well. The problem I have is when hooking it up directly to my computer. I tried doing this on both firewire 400 and firewire 800 since I have a lot of data to transfer. It won't even show up on my screen. I know the computer is seeing it's there because when I remove the drive it says how I remove a device improperly. Even Disk Utility shows it but I can't find it in finder and elsewhere. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

[peeb]

What format is it? Are you connecting it to the AE with USB, or firewire? Have you tried connecting it by USB to your computer?

[krove]

After updating to 10.4.10, my external firewire drive borks all the time, causing all applications that are trying to access it (Finder, iTunes, etc) to freeze until I unplug it. It is super annoying and has made it nearly impossible to use the hard drive.

If I had USB on it, I'd plug in via that, but it is firewire only. Not sure if this is related to above, but any ideas?

[all2ofme]

I had problems with one of my WD My Book Pro 500GB drives. Am sending it back. I'm not sure whether I want a replacement or a refund. I've not been entirely happy with those disks (I have two), but when they *are* working well they're lovely.