I got mine just some days ago. Latest firmware updated right away. Now I got two USB HDDs attached, one has just one parrtition, 2TB and the other one has for prime partitions, all over the HDD has 1.5TB and both have very many smaller size media files as well as midsize and large video files.
The media library scan needs ages for my box. And some files seems to be broken or what… after a while the SMP is not responding anymore and I have to restart it by deplug and replug the power. The HDD with the 4 primary partitions needs realy long time, more than 10min. to get recognized by the box, the other HDD is there right away within some minutes.
While the media library scanning, the network (LAN ethernet) connection brakes up and the GUI freezes.
What is the issue with it? I thought there will be no issue with my USB Harddrives and I just connect them and be a happy camper?!? What for did I bu the **bleep** box?
well, in my case the issue is that I got two usb-harddrives connected directly with the box and not via LAN as NAS. I wish I would have the money for a performant NAS solution!
Still, I can do everything and not getting it running - many more hours of waiting for the WD SMP indexing/scanning my files into this media library did not help. The SMP hangs totally and I had to restart it twice again.
Is it because I do not only have media files but as well other files on my two HDDs, so I can use the WD SMP as a NAS as well as a media cube?
have you managed to solve the issue? I have exacly the same problem with my IOMEGA NAS. I have tried everything. It works fine with my Bufalo NAS…but its 2 small for my film collection.
Actually, I should note that this is for an older version of the WDTV…
if it lets you select the nas drive to create a media library, it should work. the only reason i have seen it not work is because of read/write permissions on the directory where the media is.
NAS network connected. I agree def a perms issue…but I have tried all that. The odd thing is it creates the .wd_live folder with files wdtv.cas2* and wdtv.cas2_lock_file_check_…* so obviously it has write perms. If I look at the permissions of these they only have read. I am unable to change the perms with the WDTV on. I have to turn it off. Reboot the NAS (It locks up and all my other shares are unavailable on the network). I change the perms of the files…but they make absolutely no difference. Really frustrating.
Can I sum it up liket this? Even with 1.7.15 the media collection does not work on a NAS even when the SMP has R/W rights on the share and there’s nothing that the user can do about this? Me SMP hangs for hours and even deleting the WDTV folders does not help it.
I have logged a call with IOMEGA for this…and its not looking promising. As I have previously mentioned, the media library function works OK on my Buffalo NAS. I have looked at the file permissions of the wdtv.cas2 file and …
I have sent IOMEGA a config dump from my NAS which they requested. They have basically come back with…
We will most likely not support this operation as we won’t support 3rd party devices - If you can create a share from a computer and fully operate on the files from the computer, unit is working as intended. In any case we would need more information on the exact process used by the device to “compile” the media library.
OK… Spoke to IOMEGA Support not helpfull. WD Support not helpfull (well they suggested rolling back the firmware but that made no differnece) I have however found the solution (well more of a work arounnd). It does require a PC to be on all the time (not a problem for me as I have a PC running Logitech Media Server for my squeezebox) and the use of something called Symbolic Links…windows 7 and poss vista required. XP a no go.
It definitely takes too long, and slows everything else down while you have to wait for it. It’s really amazing what poor effort they put into indexing.