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Western digital virtual cd manager
Western digital virtual cd manager









western digital virtual cd manager
  1. #WESTERN DIGITAL VIRTUAL CD MANAGER INSTALL#
  2. #WESTERN DIGITAL VIRTUAL CD MANAGER UPDATE#

One of the page is page 0x20, which contains the information necessary to enable or disable the virtual cd.įirst you need to install sdparm. Western Digital uses undocumented, vendor-unique SCSI mode pages.

#WESTERN DIGITAL VIRTUAL CD MANAGER UPDATE#

See the virtual cd-rom at /dev/sr0? Also note that the hard disk appears as /dev/sdc on my system, so you will have to update the following commands accordingly if your disk has a different system letter. Sep 01 15:41:12 thinkpad-linux kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: Attached SCSI disk Sep 01 15:41:12 thinkpad-linux kernel: sdc: sdc1

western digital virtual cd manager

Sep 01 15:41:12 thinkpad-linux kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: Assuming drive cache: write through Sep 01 15:41:12 thinkpad-linux kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: No Caching mode page found Sep 01 15:41:12 thinkpad-linux kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: Write Protect is off Sep 01 15:41:12 thinkpad-linux kernel: ready

western digital virtual cd manager

Sep 01 15:41:07 thinkpad-linux kernel: ses 6:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 13 Sep 01 15:41:07 thinkpad-linux kernel: ses 6:0:0:2: Attached Enclosure device Sep 01 15:41:07 thinkpad-linux kernel: sr 6:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5 Sep 01 15:41:07 thinkpad-linux kernel: sr 6:0:0:1: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 Sep 01 15:41:07 thinkpad-linux kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: Spinning up disk. Sep 01 15:41:07 thinkpad-linux kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 Sep 01 15:41:07 thinkpad-linux kernel: scsi 6:0:0:2: Enclosure WD SES Device 1005 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 Here is the log output for my brand new WD My Passport: Sep 01 15:41:07 thinkpad-linux kernel: scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD My Passport 25A8 1005 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 Please keep in mind that the following solution worked well for me, but that it could, potentially, brick your hard disk. No results with Google either, so I had to dig a little further. According to Western Digital, there is no known way under Linux to disable (and hide) the “Virtual CD” (VCD) partition that can often be found on their external hard disks (such as the popular My Passport series).











Western digital virtual cd manager