WD World Edition white light freezes/locks up

[arzach]

Freezed again.

and just listening some mp3, then left it alone for a day, as usual.

i'm still waiting for The Cure...

- removed memeo script

- removed inetd script

- remove "nice" samba option

- reduced twonky buffer size

[jdz2k]

hey arzach, im trying the "nice" command too and only have mionet disabled. i definately need twonky also so its not an option to disable nor modify its buffer setting. everything else is back to normal as it still froze with all the changes you listed. its going well during my 64GB transfer right now!! hope im not jinxing it. lol.

030811 update: the 64GB upload was a success!! i think we may be on to something here. here is a snapshot of what i did.

1) followed LarsMaschke post to remove "nice -n -20" so that it just says "/usr/sbin/smbd -D"  in /etc/init.d/S90smbd.

 link: http://community.wdc.com/t5/My-Book-World-Edition/Large-File-Problem-eg-Backup-Jobs/m-p/148222#M4093

2) followed Vlado post to disable everything mionet (I didnt do mv /etc/init.d/S97twonkyserver /root which deals w/ twonky) and i also edited /usr/mionet/monitorCVM.sh to make Mionet obey startup flag.

link: http://community.wdc.com/t5/My-Book-World-Edition/Drive-Becomes-Un-Accessible-After-short-use-II/td-...

3) reboot through putty and/or web interface.

i had undone everything else i'd tried on the forums here so truly mionet is the only thing disabled.

[jprvalin]

Thank you for information i need to try your solution because my WD WEII freeze all day

[arzach]

as said in the other thread, mine is still freezing, even after the "nice" option is removed from twonky.

http://community.wdc.com/t5/My-Book-World-Edition/Large-File-Problem-eg-Backup-Jobs/m-p/150496#M4186

(I'm sorry for the double post, at the moment there are two active threads about this problem)

[Rodent_Tx]

Quick update: 8 days without an error. Up time is less due to a power outage (works on the local transformer station), but no freeze-outs of the device itself.

Looks like I won't have to beat Chuck Norris with my MBWE after all ;-)

[arzach]

Thank you for every one who tried to help in thei thread.

In the end, the problem is  still the same: running twonky means to freezed the hd soon or later

Now I'm giving up becouse i'm really fed up with this product.

I will forget twonky and i will use my disks only for lan backup.

and I will never ever buy a WD products again.

[jdz2k]

thats good to hear Rodent_Tx!! I also have had success with the changes i made and have been running for at least 28 days except for being through a couple power outages(they only lasted for a minute...weird). Im FINALLY able to use this NAS as a regular NAS!!!

Sorry to hear your situation arzach. i had given up for months and was a powercycling fool but came back a month ago and finally feel my solution has arrived!!

[philbell]

Please also check out topic "Large File Problem eg. Backup-Jobs" originated by LarsMaschke:

http://community.wdc.com/t5/My-Book-World-Edition/Large-File-Problem-eg-Backup-Jobs/td-p/138178

This has a similar, but less intrusive solution, and it works!

UPDATE - one month later.

The above solution really did it.. Went from crashing every few hours to 1 month UNINTERRRUPTED uptime.

[jprvalin]

i'm thinking like you Arzach

always freezing...

and this morning crash of hard drive, all is in error... 

[morphy]

Mine has now been running for 2 months no problems. Twonky is disabled so I cannot connect my xbox or ps3 to it but I can live with that. M