[DM-MUG] problem erasing external Western Digital 60G drive

[Victoria L. Herring]

the answer = apparently the USB power is not enough to run the drive 
from a laptop;  -  they're shipping out a power adapter - tho I 
wonder why folks sell things without accounting for that possibility
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