New Release - Firmware Version 2.3.01 for the WD Sharespace (9/12/11)

[xbentleyx]

Still bricked... no help in sight so far.

[-defender-]

First of all, I do not care about my data, I made backup before upgrade firmware.

After power cycle or reboot I see "Building RAID" and "Making filesystem" and have factory defaults setting on my SS.

I can login to SS by WEB as admin/admin and create RAID0 (but can not create RAID5). I can change password and allow access for root by ssh. But, after reboot I have factory default setting again and failed RAID (DataVolume RAID Type - Span)...

 

I have previous version microcode, but I have not any idea how I can downgrade it. 

[AKazak]

In the result of successfull firmware update to version 2.3.01 I got my ShareSpace bricked. Fortunately I've made a backup of boot partition and I'm going to downgrade...

[-defender-]

AKazak,

How can I downgrade microcode?

I have old firmware but I have not any way to downgrade it... I could not downgrade manually also due to I received error : You have latest version!!!

[AKazak]

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-defender- wrote:

AKazak,

How can I downgrade microcode?

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Prior to upgrade I connected all 4 HDDs to my Linux box and made a backup image of md0 (boot partition). Now I will connect 4 HDDs to my Linux box again and restore md0 from the image.

[-defender-]

Cool!  I made data backup only...

[adisor19]

The update went fine. I then prcceeded to transfer 1.5TB of data (3000+ files) and while it started out fast, it has slowed down to a crawl : 940KB per second. I want to cry.

Anyone in the same situation ?

Adi

[citronik]

Would you be so kind and upload that md0 image somewhere - we have another bricked SS here - after 2.3.01 upgrade. older fw version (laying on your md0) would be a great help ...  we dont' care about the data, all we need is a working fw image... thanks

[-defender-]

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citronik wrote:

Would you be so kind and upload that md0 image somewhere - we have another bricked SS here - after 2.3.01 upgrade. older fw version (laying on your md0) would be a great help ...  we dont' care about the data, all we need is a working fw image... thanks

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IMHO, some of us have default setting after 2.3.01 upgrade. Maybe, SS has default IP-adress too.

So, Can you try to connect by WEB GUI to the SS (use default IP-adress for just in case)? If you can see the similar of: RAID rebuilding or making filesystem, you have to waiting for it will be done and try to configure SS as first time...

[AKazak]

I just restored md0 from backup and realized the possible reason of firmware update failure: not enough free space at md0 before update. Before updating, everybody please ensure that you have at least 70% free at md0!

Useful Linux commands:

• df --- to see disk usage
• du --- to see folders' size