Forum: Storage (alternative)
October 22nd 06, 05:01 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 12
Views: 946
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
October 22nd 06, 04:47 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,257
Western Digital "My Book" - Questions
Believe it or not, I'm an excellent technical programmer :-) - been
doing it for over 35 years, over 25 of them as a freelancing
contractor.
Problem is, it's all been on mainframes, so when I want...
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
October 22nd 06, 04:35 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,257
Western Digital "My Book" - Questions
Andreas Keppler wrote:
"bxf" wrote:
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Option Explicit
Dim objFSO, objUSBFile
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objUSBFile =...
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
October 19th 06, 01:16 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,257
Western Digital "My Book" - Questions
Well Andreas, the script I have above works in stopping the drive from
spinning down. You can just save it somewhere (change the "M" to the
appropriate drive letter) and set up a scheduled task to...
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
October 17th 06, 12:44 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,257
Western Digital "My Book" - Questions
Folkert Rienstra wrote:
This subject has been discussed befo
"Need prog. to prevent hdd going into idle (such as a perdiodic access?)"
Ah, yes. Discussed to death, from what I see.
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
October 16th 06, 01:52 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,257
Western Digital "My Book" - Questions
craigm wrote:
Andreas Keppler wrote:
"bxf" wrote:
I canīt find any information about the standby-mode of the Western
Digital My Book - harddrive!
...
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
October 16th 06, 02:03 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,257
Western Digital "My Book" - Questions
bxf wrote:
bxf wrote:
Andreas Keppler wrote:
"bxf" wrote:
I've just done the above, and my dummy script is in fact an empty file
I've named Dummy Access.bat....
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
October 16th 06, 01:31 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,257
Western Digital "My Book" - Questions
Folkert Rienstra wrote:
"bxf" wrote in message
My MYBOOK included WD Diagnostics software, which enables me to view the SMART data on the WD drive
You might wanna tell...
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
October 15th 06, 04:50 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,257
Western Digital "My Book" - Questions
bxf wrote:
Andreas Keppler wrote:
"bxf" wrote:
I've just done the above, and my dummy script is in fact an empty file
I've named Dummy Access.bat. The only unpleasant...
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
October 15th 06, 03:54 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,257
Western Digital "My Book" - Questions
Andreas Keppler wrote:
"bxf" wrote:
I canīt find any information about the standby-mode of the Western
Digital My Book - harddrive!
I could only find a lot of...
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
October 13th 06, 03:38 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,257
Western Digital "My Book" - Questions
wrote:
Hello!
I canīt find any information about the standby-mode of the Western
Digital My Book - harddrive!
Can it be turned off by software?
Yes, but...
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
July 24th 06, 01:26 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 4
Views: 366
BartPE
job wrote:
"bxf" wrote in message
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Michael Cecil wrote:
On 18 Jul 2006 17:49:45 -0700, "bxf"...
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
July 19th 06, 11:50 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 5
Views: 269
Inetmittently slow external USB drive
Folkert Rienstra wrote:
Or return the WD drive for one of the same make as his other drives.
European prices do not always give one the benefit of a multitude of
options that one finds in the US,...
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
July 19th 06, 11:39 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 5
Views: 269
Inetmittently slow external USB drive
Arno Wagner wrote:
Previously bxf wrote:
I just bought my third external USB2 drive - Western Digital MyBook
320GB (good pice n my area), and I have a problem I haven't...
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
July 19th 06, 11:31 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 4
Views: 366
BartPE
Michael Cecil wrote:
On 18 Jul 2006 19:41:37 -0700, "bxf" wrote:
Michael Cecil wrote:
On 18 Jul 2006 17:49:45 -0700, "bxf" wrote:
I've tried...
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
July 19th 06, 03:41 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 4
Views: 366
BartPE
Michael Cecil wrote:
On 18 Jul 2006 17:49:45 -0700, "bxf" wrote:
I've tried to create a BartPE disc, and in the process I got warning
messages about a missing NVRAID.SYS...
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
July 19th 06, 01:49 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 4
Views: 366
BartPE
I've tried to create a BartPE disc, and in the process I got warning
messages about a missing NVRAID.SYS plus another file (IASTOR.SYS if I
remember correctly). When trying to boot from the disc, it...
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
July 19th 06, 12:30 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 5
Views: 269
Inetmittently slow external USB drive
I just bought my third external USB2 drive - Western Digital MyBook
320GB (good pice n my area), and I have a problem I haven't encountered
with my other drives.
I just did a COPY/PASTE from the WD...
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