CurtPalme.com Home Theater Forum

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635

Thanks and a permanent fix is in progress. What should I use in the SD memory slot ? I should have the Duo in a couple of days. Thumbs Up

CIR Engineering · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:23 am Post subject:

wallace123456 · Joined: 14 Aug 2006 Posts: 2236 Location: Northwest VA area

Ok, this stuff is driving me crazy. sh*t, you guys are going to fast.

But, I am learning.

I now have a NAS and Dune player. I must say, it is really cool!

Just need to learn how to drive all this stuff.

BTW, thanks Craig. Mr. Green

wallace

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 3:29 am Post subject:

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635

ecrabb · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:53 am Post subject:

The SD card slot is most commonly used when people remove the SD card from their digital camera, and insert it to view their photos on the TV.

SC

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635

I thought about that but it's not all that easy to get to being on the rear of the Dune Confused

Well at least it's there Wink

CIR Engineering · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:38 am Post subject:

CIR Engineering · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:40 am Post subject:

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635

Wallace what Dune model did you get ?

wallace123456 · Joined: 14 Aug 2006 Posts: 2236 Location: Northwest VA area

CIR Engineering · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 1:24 am Post subject:

dturco · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 1:42 am Post subject:

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635

How do you remove the hard drive from this external drive enclosure ?

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Essential-Desktop-External/dp/B0042Z55RM/ref=pd_sim_e_59

HK-Steve · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 7:06 am Post subject:

They open like a book from the back side where the power supply and USB port are.
I opened about 15 of the earlier model. looks like the same design.

You will break off tabs when you do it, so will not be original condition once you do it.

Cheers
Steve

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635

How do you remove the tabs and where are they ? I assume this voids the warranty on the drive itself...

CIR Engineering · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 3:21 pm Post subject:

Look for a youtube video on removing the drives from their enclosures. It is really easy and you can get them apart without breaking the tabs... just don't "open them like a book" Smile

I use a dull table knife and just insert it between the seam on the back side. Then I just separate it a very small amount. I hold that small separation apart with a hand and then stick the knife into the opposite seam. Make another small separation. Then you slide (pull) the front from the back.

I broke the tabs off the very first one I ever opened a few years ago, but I haven't broken any tabs since.

I've got piles of extra covers here without broken tabs.

Also, I had an external fail once and WD covered it under warranty as a bare drive. I just put the drive serial number into their web page when it failed and they sent me a new bare drive. The warranty period is the same for both external and internal drives.

craigr

CIR Engineering · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 3:23 pm Post subject:

BTW all six of the drives in my new NAS came out of externals.

craigr

CIR Engineering · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 3:27 pm Post subject:

Also, if you use WD green drives be sure to run WDIdle3.exe on them to shut off the parking feature. You can get a live DOS boot disc CD with WDIdle3 on it through the link below:

http://www.jzab.de/content/wdidle-bootcd

You might discover that you need to set your MB to IDE instead of AHCI to get it to work. This seems to depend on build date of the drives and varies from month to month.

Also, people have reported that disabling parking makes the drives run bad. I have never seen this problem and have always completely disabled parking. To do this when the live CD boots up just type:

wdidle3 /r

This will display parking time curently set (usually 8 seconds). Then type:

wdidle3 /d

This disables parking. Then type:

wdidle3 /r

to verify parking was disabled.

If you want to keep some parking enabled set the drives to park after 300 seconds (maximum time). Type wdidle3 /300.

craigr

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635

Thanks Craig. I did find this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqxBVgKvdxk