- Wd smartware virtual cd manager no device found for mac#
- Wd smartware virtual cd manager no device found update#
- Wd smartware virtual cd manager no device found code#
Perhaps the external EEPROM code (?) controls this behaviour. In the absence of such an EEPROM, these chips report their own manufacturer's ID.ĪIUI, multifunction USB devices will enumerate themselves by going through the identification process several times in quick succession. Some simple USB-SATA bridges only use the external EEPROM for customising the Product ID and Vendor ID of the device. Lifting the clock pin would be informative. It appears that the ROM code in the Initio chip, or its external flash memory, enables the virtual CD-ROM. If you now reinitialise and reformat the drive, and then reinstall it in your enclosure, the Initio chip decrypts the unencrypted data, resulting in jibberish. When you connect your HD directly to your motherboard, Windows sees the encrypted data and therefore is unable to recognise any partition. The INIC-1607E bridge IC encrypts the data whether or not you have set a password. This is my first post on this comunity, hope to became guru soon.
Wd smartware virtual cd manager no device found for mac#
I updated the firmware on two drives (both My Passport for Mac 500GB) to 20.18 without any problems.
Wd smartware virtual cd manager no device found update#
I know it is the same chip installed on some Western Digital hard disks. WD Software & Mobile Apps WD Software abilstein December 3, 2010, 3:38am 1 In an attempt to hide the WD Smartware VCD from my device list, I followed WD instructions to update the firmware and then use the VCD Manager to configure the drives. If they will answer i will ask them some flashing tool.ĭo you have any datasheet or flash tool for this INITIO chip ? What is stored on the external flash? just a personalization code o the entire operative system?ģ) i requested the complete datasheet to initio, but they still didn't answer. Then i can format the disk from "hard disk management tool" and let it work again (but the virtual CD problem is still there!).Ģ) If i will disconnect the 1Mbit flash (the data or clock pin on the PCB), will the INIC chip work as interface between me and the hard disk or do it needs to read the external flash? If i open "hard disk management tool", windows tells me that the external hard drive has no partition! Now i can see (with Windows) only a CD-ROM drive (1MB size)!!! Since the flash is only 1Mbit size, i assume that virtual CD (1MByte) resides on Hard disk,ġ)I removed the hard drive, installed on a desktop pc, deleted partition (only one was present) and formatted with FAT32.Ģ)I connected again the Hard Disk in the HP usb adapter The SATA-USB adapter has these main components on it:ġ)INIC-1607E (INITIO chip) (SATA to USB Bridge Controller IC with AES)( )ģ)flash memory (1Mbit) model “25X10avnig” by winbond I have a TV media player with USB port that reads only the first externalĭrive, and the media player finds only the virtual CD-ROM, cause it's the first detected drive!)Ģ)A SATA western digital hard disk (320GB) model WD3200BEVTĬonnecting the disk direcly to a desktop pc, using the sata connector, i can format and use the hard disk. I need to remove the virtual CD (or to make it a secondary disk) because On Microsoft Windows it shows virtual CD (1MB size) and a hard disk.
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