How To Open A Wd My Book World Edition
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I got some old WD external boxes and found identifying exactly what they are a challenge. Here is what I think I have:Part #WD2000HSU - two 3.5' bays, 1-usb 2.0 port (possibly the original MyBook Mirror)Part #WDVBHxxxxxxx - two 3.5' bays, 1-1Gb RJ-45, 1-usb 2.0 port (possibly the MyBook Duo Live)Part #I'll let you know - four 3.5' bays, 1-1Gb RJ-45, 2-usb 2.0 (rear), 1-usb 2.0 (front) WD SharespaceSome ideas and observations. The Sharespace enclosure is quite nice and it occurred to me how it might house an Intel NUC or Raspberry Pi (replacing the unit mainboard). Has anyone considered using these boards on this unit with pin header cables? Now that we know how to open the MyBook boxes without destroying them, has anyone considered replacing the LAN or usb chip to increase its meager performance?Now that my unrealistic notions have been exposed, let's get down to the practical:I've said goodbye to Windows permanently and only run Linux distros. It would be helpful to get these up and running so can any of the boxes above be flashed to accept newer, lower power 5400rpm drives?
Max HD size?Is there any? I plan a last big pimp-up to my 2-bay MBWE to really big space. By use of the various projects described here, I managed installations from scratch to fresh HDs quite some time ago, I dimly remember, I could not use 100% of the size. I think it was a limit of the volume manager. I am not bound to use md, but otoh this is the “natural” setup I would not like to disturb. I am not absolutely bound to mirroring, as I do proper use of saving important data, so I am not even sure I want it to be symmetric. I could go with a 1-4 TB 'system' disk and an 8 GB additional data or something.
In that case I would configure the system as single-drive and add sdb manually with ext3 or whatever.Do you have experience concerning. limits of md. max size of supported disks in general.
Workarounds in case there are limitsany shared knowledge or ideas welc0me! Okay what a great site and still alive after so many years. Thanks for the instructions here, followed it step by step and it works great except in 1 scenario. I have a MBL and installed the latest version of Twonky 8.5.1. I have two Sony devices. A blue ray player which plays my audio, video, photos perfectly.
The 2nd is a Sony Bravia TV and that's where the problem begins. When I go to the menu on the TV, there is an audio section, a photo section, and a video section. In the audio section, it shows the Twonky Server and I can play those audio files. In the photo section, it shows the Twonky Server and I can play those videos. In the video section, the Twonky Server does not even show up. I checked the profiles at ip:9000 (in Settings — Security — Devices) and noticed that the BRAVIA KDL-40NX711 (my bravia TV model) shows 'Generic Media Receiver' under Media Receiver Type.
So, clearly, I thought, that's the problem, lets see if Sony Bravia is in the drop down and voila, it was. Here in lies the issue, when I hit save, the Twonky Server doesn't show up still. I go back to the device setting and it was set back to 'Generic Media Receiver'.
Then I noticed there is a checkbox checked on that device settings screen that says 'Enable sharing for new media receivers automatically'. I figured that maybe the software is overriding my selection because that box is checked. I unchecked it, changed the Device Media Receiver Type to Sony Bravia, and no luck.I am out of options and coming to the experts here to help. Anyone know what I can do here? I didn't get a chance to read through all 13 pages on this thread, so apologies if this was covered previously.