the drives spin up, and the LED lights show activity when I plug the USB cable to the iMac and pull it out again. There appears nothing wrong with it, externally, i.e. Throughout all this, all the other drives show up, but not this one. So it's probably NOT a problem with the iMac. So it is not a problem with the USB interface on either the WD drive or the iMac.ħ)connected the WD drive to my iBook running 10.4.11 - same result. So it is NOT a bad USB cable.Ħ)I disconnected the USB cable completely, and connected the WD to the iMac through a FW cable and the FireWire800 port. So it is NOT a bad port/ports.ĥ)I tried a different new USB cable. Here's what I did:ģ)I disconnected the USB cable on both the WD and on the iMac, and reconnected several times.Ĥ)I tried all the USB ports on the iMac. This morning, I saw one of the external drives (the 4 TB) was not showing on the desktop. I have a number of drives plugged into the iMac including a few more WD My Book drives. The WD drive is configured in RAID1, and about 40% full (i.e, there's about 900GB on it). Problem external drive: Western Digital My Book Studio II - 4 TB (2 x 2 TB) USB 2.0/FireWire 800/400/eSATA Desktop External Hard Drive. Late 2009 iMac 27" i7 2.8GHz 8GB RAM 1TB HDD Seagate running OS X 10.6.7
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