New Firmware Version 1.02.12 for the My Book World I & II (10/19/11)

[macmanni2]

Hi, I had read all the comments and as I go t a new WD MB Ed.II with Firmware 01.02.06 on my question is "why should I upgrade to 01.02.12" ??

[morphy]

The only time I find the MBW1 slow is from waking up, after there is no problem. I do not use the WD Discovery at all transfers are done windows explorer or firefox for login the only problem I have is the torrent software, but I can live with that for the time being.

[Anthi]

I can't even stream music. DLNA errors all the time.
I want a new NAS.

[Thabuz]

Can I also connect to the WD_Backup share from Finder --> Go --> Connect to server? I have many problems since I installed the last firmware version and I really need the Time Machine functionality. In the beginning both my normal and my WD_backup share disconnected automatically after a few minutes and now my WD_share is totally gone... By connecting to the data share from Finder --> Go --> Connect to server --> IP address I now have a stable connection. Which IP address / server address I have to use to connect to the WD-Backup share?

Thanks.

[hadirajan]

I hear you all, had a wonderful experience with my 6 TB WD mybookworld before the new firmware.

After I've had trouble with transefer speeds, sometimes as low as 100kb/s when I had 35 mb/s before...

Also very often I'm having trouble accessing my drive.. found that removing the Sleep function cured that but today I had 3 error messages when logging into the drive about HDD SMART not working and the drives being to warm.. intressting that you can turn of a function but then have a product that dosen't support you turning it off...

I've turned it back on since I don't want to brick my drive and I hope it works as advertised... otherwise it's going to be a recall from me or WD perhaps can rush out and new frimware update? Anything is better than nothing...

[Holle]

So, another month has passed and nothing new in terms of firmware has been released.

Since I'm still reluctant to try the 1.02.12 version due to the problems reported here, I decided to reactivate the AFP on my Mac OS Lion. I'm not really happy with this, because I had to mess around with the terminal, but at least I can log on as a registered user with Finder again.

Time Machine still doesn't work, though. I'm still getting an error message that AFP doesn't support the necessary functions (or something similar).

Either way, this is the point where I stop caring.

My other MAC with Snow Leopard can still do its Back-up on the MBWII and for the machine with Lion I'll just stick to my USB drive, which I had to use for the last 3 to 6 months, anyway (I don't even know when this whole mess started, because it's so far in the past now).

I do realise it was partly my fault to try and go the cheap way for a NAS. I've learned from this and will not try my luck with a WD NAS again. I might still be buying WD USB drives etc., but I'm done with anything more sophisticated produced by WD.

So long and thanks for - ehm - at least trying.

[bbhe_bbhe]

Hi,

I have also updated to1.02.12.

After updating I keep loosing connection to the NAS. It's completely useless.

I managed to downgrade to 1.02.05 and now it works again.

I have not heard anything from WD support in 2 weeks. Thanks to a post in this forum I got it working again. But only by downgrading.

This is for sure the last time I buy a WD. Crappy support. 

[xx3xxx]

which  fews myboom models is it for -- it doesn't say

[rsmistad]

Just remove all apple Finder folders/files (.DS_Store,  .trashes, ._??? ) - the ones created by mounting a drive in Finder. You can do it through SSH login, or in terminal when mounted. 

[ShaneC]

I have been trying to update my MyBook World white light via the manual option via the web access. I have tried using chrome and firefox on Mac OS Lion and Win 7. Everytime it seems to load the file after I hit submit but then tells me no file was selected. 

The current firmware on it is 01.01.08.