Firmware update new features

Firmware update new features

Ragass 1256975233|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi all
Ok so I was just in the process of installing the features packs for my white light and on a whim clicked "check for firmware update". It found a new update and I had a quick browse online which indicated that it added time machine support. No big deal for me…I dont have the apple device. Anyway I did a bit more searching and they have added some great new features: Twonky has been updated to Version 5.1. New gui and better compatibility with dlna devices. Sweet. Icing on the cake for me is the addition of ctorrent client in download manager. It allows you to throttle the upload/download speed as well as end the torrent when certain conditions are met. Nice. Am looking at trying ctorrent client now. Version number is 1.01.14. Cheers

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Ragass 1256976810|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

One problem….could not find any mention of what port is used by ctorrent so port forwarding is an issue….

Cheers

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TeinturMan 1256987298|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi,
the WebServer / AccessBook Feature pack is currently not working with this new firmware,
i am working at solving the problem …
Edited 01/11/2009 : The problem looks to be solved now…

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wendows 1256989797|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

hi,
i want know if your feature pack support the white light two-drive 2x1T version ?

thx a lot.

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TeinturMan 1257025083|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi Wendows,
the featurepacks work on the 2x1 Tb whitelight.

The only feature that you will not have is the System backup from the MybookClone Feature pack.
but the Data backup will be available…

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Gorjan 1257016906|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Does Ctorrent support encryption? I don't see any advantages of using ctorrent over transmission. Except maybe system resources.

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Ragass 1257021830|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

No don't see encryption options in menu….Downloaded a couple of torrents using it and it worked fine.

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Gorjan 1257022295|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Ok, thanks. It's nice that they add new features, but it would've been nice if the torrent supported encryption… And if the Time Machine support worked.

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egalitarian 1257318971|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Is there a windows app to work with ctorrent something like transmission-remote for transmission cause working thru the web interface is slow and not very comfortable?

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Gorjan 1257327174|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I skipped on ctorrent and went back to Transmission.

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iceet 1257988387|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Ctorrent port information taken from this site:
http://www.rahul.net/dholmes/ctorrent/userguide.html

"-p port Listen port (default 2706 -> 2106)

Specify the TCP port number on which to listen for incoming connections. By default, CTorrent starts at 2706 and searches for an available port in decreasing order until it finds one or exhausts all ports down through 2106. The behavior with this option is similar, but starting at the specified port number. "

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bhward 1257281854|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Thanks for the notification, installed the firmware update a couple of nights ago.

I can report that Twonky 5.1 seems to work really well with the PS3. The older version struggled with fast forward and skipping for some file types, but no more. I can start watching a high definition movie then press 'Square' move to the last 5 minute press play and it instantly plays from that point. Funnily, the first scan that Twonky did picked up 80% of my music, pictures and videos. No rhyme or reason as to the files it skipped. However a second scan got to 100%.

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mrwolf85 1257110151|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

since i upgraded to the last firmware the mybok is very busy and became hot! anyone has this prolem?

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Gorjan 1257181306|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Yes, I noticed this too. It's 5'C warmer, and seems like the disk is spinning more then before. Also if I ssh and run top, the app cvm is running ~15 times.

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Gorjan 1257181626|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Ok, so I found out cvm is MioNet which I obviously had forgot to turn off. But anyway, it seems hotter, yes.

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Ragass 1257323387|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Mine seems very busy as well….it has not gone into "sleep" mode since the upgrade. How do I check what processes are running…?

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Ragass 1257323610|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Ok…notice that the new firmware has altered the Mionet settings and it was on by default….now turned it off to see what happens. Other question still stands….who do I find out what process are running?

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Gorjan 1257327441|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Turn on SSH -> connect to MBWE -> run "top".

Mionet daemon is broken. It seems like mionet starts on it own after a while even though you turn it off in the config site on the nas and disable starting mionet on reboot. When you turn off mionet it stays off for some hours, and then turn on automatically thereby draining resources on the NAS and taking CPU cycles.

Does anybody know if there are any script to alter/delete to keep mionet from starting?

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Ragass 1257362580|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Thanks for the info. After running the top command it sems on my unit it is tonkymedia player that is continually running…I have disabled auto update of files but there is not many more options to fiddle with.

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Pygmalion 1257367231|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I am having the exact same problem. Mine has not gone into sleep mode once since the update. Also, as posters below point out, Mionet keeps restarting itself, even though I have turned it off both from the web interface and via ssh with
"/usr/mionet/mionetd stop"

There is clearly some sort of bug in this new firmware that is causing some script or other to keep executing occasionally, one of the side effects of which is that Mionet is constantly restarted.

Can anyone here that is more of a Linux guru figure out what script is causing this? I just sent a message to Western Digital tech support, but they are not necessarily very helpful. I suggest everyone else having this problem send them a message as well, though, so that they will note that this really is a problem.

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Ragass 1257405934|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I found that an option in the twonky settings was ticked regarding accessing media from usb devices. Once I had unticked this and restarted twonky it now enters sleep mode. Hope this helps someone. Cheers

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Pygmalion 1257445866|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi, Ragass. I saw this option on the twonky setup page, but mine is unchecked.

For those interested, I did "solve" the mionet problem, in a sense. I ssh'd into the device and removed execute permissions on the file /usr/mionet/monitorCVM.sh. Since doing this, Mionet is not starting up on its own anymore, and my device has been able to sleep. Strangely, the comments at the beginning of this file state:

## This version of monitorCVM.sh is only for FireFly use!!
## This will be called by Wistron's HW monitoring daemon every 1330 seconds.

So, clearly the script monitorCVM.sh was the culprit in causing Mionet to start, and it seems that Wistron's HW monitoring daemon (launched by init.d) is what is calling monitorCVM.sh in the first place. I don't know why this new firmware is doing this, other than that it must just be a bug that was missed by WD.

Now that I have fixed that problem, the device seems to be sleeping essentially as it ought to. I will post back whenever WD tech support gives me an "answer" to this problem.

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Gorjan 1257583710|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Thanks I'll try this!

I also tried WD Support, but they only told me to leave the MioNet on. Yeah, thanks WD… :-P

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keeyu2 1257784469|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I am a newbie and I have been able to log on using SSH. Please list all the commands I need to disable "/usr/mionet/mionetd stop".

Thanks

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magugu 1257791967|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

A comment about this monitorCVM.sh issue: I bought the mybook (white light, the 2x1TB version) just a few days ago, and it had the problem described above, in that even though I have disabled mionet (through the web interface), the monitorCVM.sh keeps firing cvm. This does not keep the mybook from entering sleep mode, but I still wanted to get rid of these processes. It seems to me that disabling mionet in the web interface simply removes the file /etc/.mionet_on_startup. This is checked for in S9M_mionet (in init.d) like this:

if [ ! -f "/etc/.mionet_on_startup"  ]; then
        exit 1
fi

So instead of removing execute permissions on monitorCVM.sh, I just added these same three lines to the beginning of that script. Whether this is the correct solution (tm) or not, it seems to function well.

BTW: I noticed that this HW monitoring thing (I guess it means /usr/sbin/wixhwmonitor, which is a binary executable) contains the string /usr/mionet/monitorCVM.sh hardcoded…

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Pygmalion 1257804451|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi, magugu - good solution, especially if you think you may want to have Mionet running at some point again later. And, yes, the string /usr/mionet/monitorCVM.sh is indeed present in the wixhwmonitor binary, though I'm not really sure why that is.

Anyway, let's hope that WD brings out a new firmware in the near future that fixes this problem for real. I still feel like my device is not sleeping as well as it should since I updated the firmware for some reason, but it may be in my mind and/or unrelated to the Mionet issue.

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keeyu2 1257908089|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Sorry- I am a newbie in linux.

Do you add the command to /usr/mionet/monitorCVM.sh?

if [ ! -f "/etc/.mionet_on_startup" ]; then
exit 1
fi

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Pygmalion 1257525587|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Well, I heard back from the useless WD tech support department today regarding this. They just advised me to reset the device to factory settings. I am not going to do this, though, as then I will lose all of the data on the drive (from what I understand). Anyone else having this problem that doesn't mind resetting want to give it a try and report back the results?

In the meantime, the "fix" I mentioned previously is still working and I can wait until another firmware update for a real solution if resetting doesn't work.

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Yort 1258013833|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I've tried resetting to factory settings, and I can confirm two things.

1) It wipes all the data (it even warns you about this before it does it)
2) It doesn't fix this issue (I didn't think it would)

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Weyoun84 1257459367|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Thank Christ for this forum, I thought I was going nuts. That darn Mionet service just keeps on restarting no matter how many times I tell it not to via the web interface.

I too have noticed that my NAS has been drinking too much coffee and doesn't like to sleep since the firmware upgrade.

I've fired off an email to WD Support as well about this. Hopefully they'll release another firmware update soon-ish.

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Weyoun84 1257606934|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

GOOD NEWS!

I've got this reply from WD:

**

I am really sorry about the issues you are experiencing with your drive and MioNet.

We are currently working on a new firmware release and this should be taking care of.

Please allow sometime for the firmware to be available.

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Gorjan 1257678740|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Great!

It would also be great if ctorrent gained encryption.. :-)

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Donkas 1259247048|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

The new firmware was released 2 days ago - v1.01.16. Has anyone tried this to see if it fixes the sleep issue?

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pfoomer 1259405725|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi

the mionet problem is still there in 1.01.16.
also it tries to contact the following ip address 198.107.148.254. (as it did in the previous release)
no response from WDS re this

I wish WD would understand that some of us just want a NAS to back up files, and to be able to shut down all the other stuff.

Re stopping mionet, will try the permissions (its easier!!), can the same be done for wonkymedia server?

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Cfontes 1259272014|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I just want the new twonky, the rest is not usefull to me…

And I did a lot of tweaking in my WD, I don't want to start all over again :(

Does the update delete everything ? Files ? or just a small amount of folders ? do we lose the /opt/ ?

Can anybody pack or send me the new twonky so I can install it myself ? maybe I can create a .deb for it.

Thanks

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angryxpeh 1259318038|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Yes, /opt/ is gone after installing this update.