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I recently bought a new My Book Essential 1TB (WDBACW0010HBK-NESN) to daisychain to my older My Book World Edition 500GB (blue rings) with one of the version 01.xx.xx firmwares.
Mybook world Edition is now undetectable when it started to blinking curiously. It was working perfectly until now. There are 3 white lights in the front. MybookWorld Edition undetectable - White lights blinking. WD Legacy Products. Other Network Drives. How to reset the WD ShareSpace or the WD My Book World (White Light) drive. WD MBWE Hack: nethostfs. Reboot My Book World Edition. Note 1 - nice -n 10 is used in service script to adjust process priorities, in order to avoid nethostfs consumes too much CPU resource. Note 2 - This works perfect for iRshell, as well as PPA (which uses iRshell's WiFi code). Here is a complete list of links to hacks and howto's for the Western Digital My Book World Edition. = Little knowledge required to do the hack. = Some or lots of knowledge required to do the hack. (not recomended to new linux users) = This program is also available as an optware package. A Western Digital My Book World Edition is an external hard drive that can be used to store digital files and programs. The My Book World Edition allows you to set a password for the unit to protect your files.
At first when I connected the USB drive to the MBWE, it showed up in the System Summary section of the administration page without any issue. I was able to set up a new share on the new drive. The administration website moved very, very slow though. The administration pages became nearly unresponsive during this setup process. Once the share was set up I could access the new share but again, it was very slow, now through Windows Explorer. I looked around the internet and it seems that this is caused by the USB drive being formatted with NTFS. I tried reformatting it (again, as NTFS) just to double check and the same problem occurred. I then tried FAT32 but realized it would only support files of approximately 2GB and that is not acceptable for me.
I decided to try a firmware upgrade on the MBWE to version 02.00.19. The firmware upgrade completed successfully but now the MBWE does not display the USB drive in the System Summary like it did with the earlier firmware version. The USB drive works perfectly fine when connected directly to my computer.
Is there a way to solve this issue?
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I emailed Western Digital tech support and they responded to let me know that this setup will not work properly.
We apologize for the difficulties. Your My Book World Edition (Blue Rings) only supports USB drives up to 500 GB (its own capacity) formatted as FAT32 (NTFS will appear as read-only).
The My Book Essential (+ WD SmartWare) USB 3.0/USB 2.0 is not supported by the My Book World Edition (Blue Rings). Please connect your drive directly to the computer.
With that said, I'm wondering if there might be a way to hack the firmware so I can get it to recognize NTFS without messing anything up.
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I am not too familiar with this particular product, and i am probably even less familiar with linux; however, it is possible that one or both of these resources may have what you are looking for, if you are willing to do a little digging.
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Western Digital sells a number of external drives under the MyBook World Edition brand. These are network-based external storage drives that you can connect to remotely from multiple machines. Inside are a couple of drives set up in a mirrored RAID configuration, as well as an embedded computer running Linux.
MakeFan: tipped us off to Martin Hinner’s website, which has a lot of details about the software running on the MyBooks, including info for hacking the devices capabilities to do more than what’s available out of the box.
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This page provides information on how to hack your MyBook World Edition, so as you can improve performance and add new features. MyBook is powered by ARM9 microprocessor, it has 32MB of SDRAM and boots from internal hard drive. The system partition has 2.8GB (only 260 MB is occupied). This means that you have a lot of resources for various improvements.
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You can enable SSH on the device without cracking the case. Martin hosts a script that subverts the firmware update software to create your ssl keys and boot the sshd process. Once that is enabled, you have full access to the OS to do what you like, including running an NFS server, web server, or even replacing the standard web interface.
Also worth checking out is the Hacking WD MyBook Wiki. They have links to information on rescuing data from dead drives and building other software for the device. Keep in mind that building MySQL from source will take about 18 hours, but there’s got to be something fun you can do with a LAMP stack running on a terabyte hard drive.
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