On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 10/22/2010 11:10 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> The thing to watch out for is drives like some western digitals which >> come with an insanely annoying artifical "cdrom" as part of the >> drive. It isn't really a cdrom, so it confuses things that >> expect it to be one and clutters your desktop with phony icons, >> and there is no way I've found to just make it disappear. What is it really? > I was leery of the WD drive discription: > > http://www.ecost.com/prod/Storage/External+Storage/Hard+Drives/USB+HDD/Western+Digital+1TB+My+Book+Essential+External+USB+20+Hard+Drive+-+WDBAAF0010HBK-NESN/57614572.aspx?navid=155441514* What made you leery? -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be." -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines