System Test Memory Error

[Cerberus]

@Dale_Herbranson

I ran a System Test on the DL2100 and it returned with a red symbol next to memory.

If you recently upgraded to My Cloud OS5 firmware version 5.27.157 it’s a bug.

My Cloud OS5 Firmware 5.27.157 Problems

Further investigation revealed that the My Cloud OS5 memory test is a fraud. The dashboard calls a CGI compiled binary program named “smart.cgi”, which then calls another compiled binary program named “sys_diag”, and this is where things get interesting. diagnostics.html > diagnosticsDiag.js > smart.cgi > sys_diag The WD “sys_diag” compiled binary program does NOT actually test the memory at all, it merely calls the “dmidecode” Linux program and gets the size of all installed memory modules…