Guys, I've just opened my external mini-USB WD3200MEB pocket and replaced the 2.5" WD HDD with some spare HITACHI, which appeared as 'WD' followed by a garbled text too; not the case with any single-platter WD HDD, though.

Just out of curiosity I connected the USB pocket to my notebook SATA DVD, which detected rather slowly as... an empty string name (perhaps, USB2 infamous power undervoltage), yet kept re-initialized with periodical "USB device dis/connected" messages.
Frankly, I understand, that WD possibly had intentionally reserved or even black-listed their rivals, which is fine with me.

However, I don't know whether it relates, but there's some chip (see indication in the attach) on the plug-in adapter, which started to get rather hot not so long ago--about 65'C. Not meant to hijack the topic, but should I feel alarmed?

TY

I just wanted to note that a working adapter may distort the ID when using non-supported devices (in this case not from WD), and was a bit worried the chip is really hot, yet if it would be better somehow, then could admins please move it to a new thread? Thanks.

BTW, I know that the hotter the device, the faster it usually dies, but where one could find reference data, say, the relevant chip temperature? I tried searching datasheets to no avail (perhaps, also counts that I just don't know what to search for).

TY