I’ve seen many threads similar to mine but as yet not really seen a solution and I’ve logged this with WD support but have waited 4 days for a response so I’m close to taking it back. I am unable to install the latest firmware on my brand new My Book Live 1TB network drive. Full details: Model No…

Ok. So the archive seems to be corrupted. Try this . . . First reboot your computer and make sure no other process on your computer had locked the upgrade file for excusive access. Log onto the Mybook Live’s Linux command shell. Issue the command . . . /etc/init.d/samba restart Download the fi…

How much data do you have on your drive. I think I have seen something about it timing out if the drive is almost full.

I’ve had this web page thing timing out when trying to apply the latest firmware update but got round that by enabling SSH, sending the update file to the Public folder and directly invoking the update-from-file script. Do you want to try that? I can give you instructions BUT before you attempt th…

Its a brand new drive and I’m not trusting any data on it until I am sure that I am able to upgrade the firmware. Otherwise it goes back and I try a different brand.

As your NAS is new I will assume for the purpose of these instructions what your MyBook Live is named: mybooklive Download the firmware file and copy it to the Public share from: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?wdc_lang=en&fid=wdsfMyBook_Live Log onto the MBL’s (My Book Live’s) dashbo…

I wonder if this could be the root of my problems… I’ve downloaded the firmware and attempted to copy the file to the Public folder using Windows Explorer. No luck reports a problem connecting to the mapped drive. To test the share I created a folder, copied a 1k file in to it, amended it, deleted …

Also here is the results of the SSH attempt: MyBookLive:~# /usr/local/sbin/updateFirmwareFromFile.sh /DataVolume/shares/Public/apnc-021009-124-20111113.deb dpkg-deb: `/DataVolume/shares/Public/apnc-021009-124-20111113.deb’ is not a debian format archive dpkg: error processing /DataVolume/shares/P…

We have sucess. Horray. Many thanks for your help Myron I’d never done it without your help. But what a faff. why oh why shouldn’t the normal routine work on a brand new device.

This is a strange one. Possibly multiple issues. File downloaded via the web browser is incomplete. I’ve had this before and this is clearly NOT a fault of the MyBook Live. Yo_u’ve got to the Dashboard UI and trying to upload the firmware but then it just gets stuck and does not complete._ This …

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Mitya_Fyodor February 2, 2012, 9:45am 5

Myron, This sounds like it could be a plan. As the drive is new I’ve not actually started transfering data on to it. Could you give instructions?

Many thanks

Mitya

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