Talk:Western Digital My Book

message: I am still in the process of formatting this page properly (as you can see many of my formatting pragmas did not work correctly). This is my first Wikipedia page (although I commonly write TWikis for my company), hence I am still picking up the basic formatting commands.
I don't believe I have violated any WP rules by creating this article and I believe it is useful to have, since there are probably other people out there wondering what the Morse Code on their WD MyBook drive says. Since I bothered to translate it, I figured I would put it on WP for everyone else.
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I appreciate your creation of this page.  I actually found it in search for the Morse Code translation! :-)
One thing though, I'm pretty should it should all be "My Book" instead of one word: "MyBook"
Kjkjava 06:27, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I doubt it would break any laws, but it wouldn't be relevant to wikipedia. Try wikibooks for that sort of thing. Cheers, Localzuk(talk) 16:17, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: still in the process of formatting this page properly

message: I have moved the page from MyBook to Western Digital My Book in order to present the product's correct name and show the manufacturer (in a similar light to articles about other hardware). I have also added an 'extra usage' link at the top of My Book pointing to this article.
I am going to have a look through the rest of the article and do a bit of tidying also.-Localzuk(talk) 16:30, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The reason would be that it is not encyclopedic.-Localzuk(talk) 16:12, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hm. Providing the exact translation of the code might be more encyclopedic (and more precise) than "made up of a selection of the words 'personal', 'reliable', 'innovative', 'simple', and 'design'". Nevertheless, let me just put the copy of the translation here rather than in the main article so someone who wants details can find the information easier. The line breaks correspond to the lines in the My Book Pro Edition case. Cheers, --Kbs 03:05, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The reason it isn't encyclopedic is the exact layout is unimportant. It makes no difference to the words that are on the thing. It also isn't interesting knowing that the first 'reliable' is cut in 2. That is why I don't think it is encyclopedic whereas simply writing that it has these words in morse code on it  is.-Localzuk(talk) 07:37, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Moved

message: I would love to see a howto on the unlock process. Thobruk 16:06, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That wouldn't be encyclopedic, as Wikipedia isn't a howto site.-Localzuk(talk) 16:12, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Howto

message: There are alot of technical difficulties with the mybooks.  For example a decent majority of mybooks become corrupted after a certain number of months.  This was told to me by a representitive when i spoke to their tech support.  Check up on it tho.
:Sorry that would be original research without a reliable source reporting on it.-Localzuk(talk) 20:43, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Many of them stop working after a week, and they charge you upwards of $500 to recover the data - all they ever do is swap your broken MyBook for a new one, so you lose all your data unless you're willing to pay big money first, despite it being simple to take the case off and connect the drive directly to any computer via a SATA cable and recover all the data yourself.  And their tech support is rubbish.  And their online help is terrible, and their customer service ethos is diabolical - the website claims all email requests for assistance will be responded to within a day but if it takes more than that one day then you may well be waiting a month (once you're over that 24 hour target, you've already breached the waiting time so they no longer want to get back to you, as responding to your claim will then be a closed call that took more than 24 hours, which would adversly affect their targets - they instead wait for you to contact them again at which point they can reset the clock. But I don't have a reliable source to put in the article about how shitty they are (and I'm probably too biased against WD to be willing to edit any articles about them). Neıl ☎ 10:22, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mybook Tech Difficulties 

message: Why no mention of the RAID Mirror Edition?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.174.171.21 (talk) 13:07, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of Mirror Edition 

message: This is a very informational wikipedia entry, and gave me some good info I was looking for. It would have been even more helpful if information about the AC adapters were included for the various models, what the amp/volt ratings are, types on plug/connectors used, etc. 182.171.37.110 (talk) 04:48, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've owned about 12 of these over the past 4 years. Every model features the same 12V 1.5A DC cylindrical connector that fits many many other brands of external enclosures. (EIAJ-04?) --70.167.58.6 (talk) 02:18, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  AC Power Adapters 

message: To any Western Digital engineer or homebrew hacker reading this, please do away with the 9 surface mounted Leds mounted in a nonsense pattern, and replace it with a much cheaper to implement and more useful off the shelf Seven-segment display or even better, Fourteen-segment display.   You could still do the the spinning display when the drive is in use, and best of all, output capacity used, read/write speed, status and error messages in plain text, and a 'Western Digital', 'Hello', or 'Bye' message when shut down.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.226.11.248 (talk) 14:26, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fourteen-segment display 

message: The Applied Micro APM82181 is shipped in two variants: 800MHz and 1GHz. Some tech pages state the higher clock rate under "technical data" for these devices, but the MyBook Live (all variants) uses the 800MHz variant:
U-Boot 2009.08 (Sep 02 2010 - 21:48:57), Build: 0.2.3
CPU:   AMCC PowerPC APM82181 Rev. D at 800 MHz (PLB=200, OPB=100, EBC=100 MHz)
: Security support
: Bootstrap Option E - Boot ROM Location NOR/SRAM (8 bits)
: 32 kB I-Cache 32 kB D-Cache
Board: Apollo-3G - APM82181 Board, 2*SATA, 1*USB
I2C:   ready
DRAM:  Auto calibration 256 MB
FLASH: 512 kB
MyBookLive:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
cpu             : APM82181
clock           : 800.000008MHz
Memory          : 256 MB
I corrected the information accordingly! 84.134.117.171 (talk) 15:31, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  MyBook Live technical Data corrected 

message: Some WB MyBooks have a non-standard format used on the disk.  While they look "normal" when plugged in with the USB connector, if you remove the drive from the case and plug it into a computer using a SATA cable, the drive cannot be read.  If you look at it with a disk utility (e.g. Disks in Ubuntu) it shows an unknown format.  This makes for difficult data recovery in the event of a failure of the USB portion of the device.
If someone knows more about which models are so designed, perhaps this should be mentioned in the article.99.245.247.240 (talk) 06:45, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proprietary format 

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Cheers.—cyberbot IITalk to my owner:Online 04:38, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified