My Book Live Green light Flashing

WD Legacy Products My Book Live
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Hi

I have the 3Tb version of the drive. Occassionaly i cannot access the drive , just the green light keeps flashing. The only way i can make it work is pull the power cord and plug it again after some time.

Today i did the same thing, it started well, drive intialzing and stuff and i could access it for some time, Then again suddenly no access and green light blinks.

I took the HDD out of the casing and used tools to check HDD health, Everything shows normal . So whats going wrong with my book live ?

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I would check if this behavior still happens when you don’t run additional software, like the installed transmission. I also find it curious that you don’t seem to have swap space on your MBL.

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I disabled mediacrawler, which seemed to help a bit. Now i am facing issue with lag, video lags when i play it on my wd media player . And on Tabs or Phones.

I am sure there s a swap, you cant see it when the disk is connected directly on PC, aND I am using ext2fsd to read / recover data from the drive ( If i have to)

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I was actually referring to the image where you’re running top. There it says 0k swap. Furthermore, the load average of 40% that you can see there might explain why video play is lagging. I would hunt down the offending processes and try again without these first.

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ok i see what you mean, the 40% was when media crawler was enabled.  This is right now.

top - 01:08:38 up 46 min,  1 user,  load average: 1.00, 1.04, 1.09
Tasks:  84 total,   1 running,  83 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.3%us,  0.7%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    253632k total,   230400k used,    23232k free,    19648k buffers
Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,    73728k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 3473 root       4 -16 65984  15m 7680 S  0.3  6.4   0:04.28 apache2
11250 root       4 -16  5056 3456 2368 R  0.3  1.4   0:00.51 top
    1 root      20   0  4352 2304 1536 S  0.0  0.9   0:00.86 init
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd
    3 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
    4 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0
    5 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 events/0
    6 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
    9 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 async/mgr
   89 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 sync_supers
   91 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 bdi-default
   93 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.48 kblockd/0
   98 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ata/0
   99 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ata_aux
  101 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kseriod
  121 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rpciod/0
  152 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khungtaskd

Now How do i set the swap thing right

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Execute the command

swapon -s

The output should be this:

MyBookLive:~# swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sda3 partition 499584 38912 -1

 (The SIZE and PRIORITY must be as shown.  The USED will vary.)

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I get this

MyBookLive:~#  swapon -s
Filename                                Type            Size    Used    Priority
MyBookLive:~#

I had trouble earlier and could not SSH or use the UI page. so i used this

http://community.wd.com/t5/My-Book-Live/GUIDE-How-to-unbrick-a-totally-dead-MBL/m-p/435724/highlight/true#M12669

But then i did not  follow these steps ( cos they were under the guide that will destroy my data)

"Put the drive back in the enclosure and now we need to fix the SWAP partition

This is easy to fix once you boot the drive after the debrick

SSH in using PuTTY or Terminal

Username root

Password welc0me

MyBookLive:~# mkswap /dev/sda3Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 500672 KiBLABEL=, UUID=c3bc3a15-4b8d-407b-b897-956cc956e138MyBookLive:~# rebootBroadcast message from root@MyBookLive (pts/0) (Sun Mar 10 14:09:02 2013):The system is going down for reboot NOW!MyBookLive:~#

The drive will now reboot

SSH in again and verify SWAP is working

MyBookLive:~# swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sda3 partition 500608 2688 -1
MyBookLive:~#

So you think i should do this now ? 

# mkswap /dev/sda3
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Well Any one ? And will running this command - # mkswap /dev/sda3 - will it wipe my data ? i have 2 TB on and no place to back it up.