New Release - Firmware Version 2.01.06 for My Book Live (8/2/11) [ Edited ]

[Bill_S]

WD is happy to announce the latest firmware update for the My Book Live. For information about the firmware update, please check out the release notes.

Please feel free to post your experiences in this thread.

[stevenpdx]

I'm trying to install the firmware update but it seems to be stuck.  The light on the MBL is that whitish-purplish color and on the Mybook live page, it says "upgrading" but there is no progress.  It's been like this for at least an hour now and the progress indicator has not moved at all.  The drive is making access-type sounds.  What should I do?

[stevenpdx]

Well, now 30 minutes later, it all of the sudden finished up and seems to be working fine.  I have a Time Machine backup going now (I'm on Lion) and it seems to be progressing, and all of my other data is intact on the drive.

But that was a harrowing 90+ minutes waiting for the firmware upgrade to finish!

[Styan]

Firmware updated alright. I am having one issue though... At first when I turned TimeMachine back on my "Oldest backup" and "Last backup" times were reporting correctly. Though as the countdown began to start the next one the dates dissapeared and changed to None.

If I check my console, the backup still exists and is at 149 GB.  Though now when I enter time machine there are no backups.  Any ideas as to how to get TimeMachine to start saving to the old backup set?

EDIT: I stopped the backup from running and turned TM off again in hopes that I'd be able to re-connect to the previous set without overwriting anything.

Thanks

Michael

[JoelH]

I just FINALLY got the 2.00.35 firmware to install yesterday. Can one of you official types tell us why this firmware was released so quickly after the major release just a few days ago?

[Zdenda]

Still no upgrade to Twonky 6? Please, focus on the problem with .mkv streaming video. Twonky v.6 works!

[dawsman]

All good here. Performing a time-machine backup in Lion as I type.

Thanks to WD staff for their hard work on the update and the excellent communication throughout. We are lucky to have access to a forum like this that is frequented by WD experts.

[VKNG12]

I'm trying to install the firmware update but mine too looks to be stuck.  The light on the MBL is the whitish-purplish color, and on the Mybook live page it says "upgrading" but there is no progress.  I left it overnight, so this has been going on for about 10hours and counting..  The progress indicator has stopped moving at 1/10 of the way..   What can I do to make this complete?  When I go to the finder I am able to access the public folder on the drive.

[whitewater2]

From my observation of following this closely;

It was planned out and we were told this would happen. They were waiting on Netatalk 2.2 to be finalized before they could release the OS Lion fix, and it was finalized late July, got their testing done and released ASAP. The major update prior to that, was for the major changes to Mionet no longer being utilized and other items, that was already planned out before the OS Lion issue, so instead of the unknown release date of Netatalk, they decided to pull the trigger on the major update, and it just so happened that third party Netatalk finalized their product, allowing WD to address the OS Lion problem.

[Styan]

Joel... im not an official type but as a Mac user I know WD was pushing to get OS X and Time Machine support working for Lion users. See release notes below.

Firmware Version 02.01.06-26

Resolved Issues:

• Resolved issue with Time Machine incompatibility in Mac OS® X Lion™ update 

• Resolved issue with incorrect Japanese language translations