[SOLVED] B-Rad's firmware combined with OSD

[BoB77]

I had read this thread and others in order to understand how to force WDLXTV to power down HDD on standby and reconnect it on power on. Correct me please if I'm wrong but I understood no one so far found the solution.

I'm not an expert but in any case it is hard to believe that it is impossible to apply the same command/action as official WDTVLIVE FW is doing on power on from standby.


Kind Regards,
BOB

[KAD]

official firmware does not power down hdd's

to get the same effect as official firmware, don't change any of the power options

KAD

[BoB77]

I've tried and HDD is still spinning. I'm more than sure that on official FW drive was spinning down on standby.

[DaveD]

why not reflash with official firmware to prove to yourself if it really spins down or not and reflash modded firmare again after?

[recliq]

It's normal that the drive doesn't spin down if you have a osd.bin on that drive... read the README!
Otherwise check (or even post) the bugreport.

[BoB77]

It's normal that the drive doesn't spin down if you have a osd.bin on that drive... read the README!

I have been using Flash version of the WDLXTV so do not have a osd.bin on HDD.

[recliq]

Ok, so it's most likely one of the unofficial WDLXTV cook-ups, ask the question in the respecting thread.

[koichirose]

I'm still having trouble with this - see the dedicated thread: http://forum.wdlxtv.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=6873&p=58990#p58990
Did anyone manage to get a working configuration?

[sabrehawk]

1.06 official firmware DOES spin down my drive BUT it also powers down the network
in standby... so im actually a bit confused if these mechanics are somehow leftovers
of my earlier wdlxtv endavours ... i did not factory reset when flashing to 1.06 ^^.
my wdlxtv was not flash but disk based btw...

using power down network to make usb power down work as wanted was always crucial
for me so far...without doing that it wouldnt work or unreliable at best.

1.06 is by far the best official firmware so far...my file transfer problems and truncated
files on copy over lan have gone away completely..which was the main reason for trying
that out...i must stress though that i also changed my drive from ntfs to ext3 so that may
have added to the solution greatly dont blame wdlxtv for the problem ..rather than the
shitty ntfs driver used. Also transferspeeds are what i exspect from 100mbit now..and not
like flaky and slow as hell in previous custom experience.

just my 2cents to teh mentioned issue here which doesnt really belong to the topic
sorry bout that.

[RMerlin]

i must stress though that i also changed my drive from ntfs to ext3 so that may
have added to the solution greatly dont blame wdlxtv for the problem ..

It's been mentionned several times before that NTFS support was quirky and unreliable, and switching to ext3 would resolve virtually any filesystem corruption or performance issue.

This being said, part of those problems with NTFS have been fixed in the development tree, as I borrowed files from both newer WDTV firmwares and Asus' routers (which use the same NTFS driver). There just hasn't been any new release of WDLXTV that incorporate these changes yet.