New Release - Firmware Version 02.10.09-124 for My Book Live (11/17/11) [ Edited ]

[Gingernut]

Myron,

Do you know of a way to reset our MBL back to factory unboxed status without removing the hard drive?

Not the dashboard way that dosen't do this, but a way to really wipe everything and reinstall from scratch as if you just bought it.

The file masterinstall.sh in /usr/local/sbin/ looks like it does this but I would like a second opinion.

[Myron]

I've had a quick look and don't fully understand what the stript is trying to do. My advise is not to do it.

Consider this....   You fire this script up, it gets to some point past the "point of no return", the script can't find a particular resource that the owner does not have and you could end up with a 100% bricked MyBook Live..  Well....   It'll me more like . . .

MyBook Died  . . . or . . .   MyBook Dead

[Gingernut]

O.K, thanks for looking into it.

So do you know of any way to achive what I said ?

Thanks

[Myron]

The closest way I can think of is to force the MBL to re-apply it's firmware update as that replaces the MBL's operating system, preserves some configuration files and done a little bit of house keeping.  (Not tried and proven my myself!)

After that do a full factory restore from the Dashboard UI.

Can't think of any other easier way.

[ndurbak]

WD Team,

Please, get a quick update released ASAP. Everything had been working pretty well upto today when I updated to the latest firmware. The slow dashbord is very annoying. It worked great until this new update.

I appreciate all the help and support you have been providing so far. However, something must have gone wrong with this latest firmware.

Please, get a quick fix so all user can gain their satisfaction back.

Thank you.

[rockstar_DA]

CNID DB Error is not fixed. Lion and SL report errors on fresh unboxed WD Live with 021009-124 fw.

smb access works fine, but afp does not.

[Myron]

Slow dashboard? Mine seems to have got a tad bit quicker.  Strange.

Maybe give the user the owner a choice of dashboard. Either nice and flashy or a basic dashboard but make it selectable by the URL used with a setting used to select which would be the default Dashboard theme.  Either all bells and whistles or simple basic "plain Jane".

[cman548]

i just did a tour of the dashboard and the spinning status thingy never took more than two trips around before things loaded.  I don't have itunes serving or remote anything though, strictly smartware backup.  vista n wireless.

[WDTony]

After a firmware update, the databases are re-indexed. Depending on how much media you have, this can take quite a while. Performance will increase as the processes running the re-indexing complete.

For those of you having issues accessing the MBL through the friendly name, this is likely a DNS cache issue. We looked at this all weekend and did not see any issues on our side. One thing you can try to do is access it like :

http://mybooklive.local (for a PC)

or

http://mybooklive.local. (for a Mac)

Let me know if this helps.

Tony

[rockstar_DA]

Any news about the CNID errors?

Performance of the dashboard is fine for me, but read-only filesystem via AFP is ... not so cool...

D.