![]() 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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