On Wednesday 29 October 2008 23:23:47 Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 05:28, Rodney Baker wrote:
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Mine is the "Studio Edition" and is just a disk, no NAS / SAN / SAMBA / NFS / etc. capabilities.
I haven't played with these at all. I did get a chance to play with a LaCie unit though, which had USB2/FIrewire400/Firewire800 and eSATA interfaces. No documented Linux support but plugged it in via USB2 and it worked out of the box, auto mounted with no intervention whatsoever. The owner of one of the MyBook World Edition drives bought it as a backup for the MyBook for 2 reasons; first, the MyBook's transfer speed via ethernet is painfully slow and second, so I could copy all of the data from the MyBook to the LaCie before recovering the MyBook...
I have had to recover 2 of these units for their owners - the original hard disk images that WD used to build the drivers had corruption/errors ...
That should have read, "...build the drives...", not drivers.
I hope the drive hardware isn't as bad as you describe the networking software...
The hardware seems fine, although the World Edition's processor does appear to run pretty warm (as do many these days, I guess). The main thing appears to be the default software on the thing. It can be fixed though, by anyone with reasonable Linux knowledge (and no help from WD Tech Support). With one of the units though (my Father's), its latest trick is every few days it just stops talking to the network. Every few days Dad will call and say, "I can't access MyBook again...". So, I tell him, "Power it off and back on again", then I ssh into his Linux box and remount it for him. He's a Linux newbie and a Windoze non-expert, but he does enjoy using openSUSE on his desktop machine, simply because it does everything he needs and is more reliable (and faster) than Vista on his laptop...it also means that I can fix things remotely, which saves a drive...:-) (This is getting more and more OT - I've got to stop doing that...;-) Cheers, -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ===================================================