WD My Book World Edition (blue ring)

Western Digital My Book World Edition (blue ring)

The World Edition My Books works as Network attached storage (NAS). They also feature an extra USB host port to allow to use USB drive. They are accessed as CIFS/SMB shared folders, via NFS or FTP and also feature UPnP

Network Speed

• Although MyBook Ethernet capable disks come with a Gigabit Ethernet interface.
• VIA VT6122 Gigabit NIC 32bit 33/66MHz
  

RAM

• 256Mb H-die DDR SDRAM (K4H561638H)

Controller Board

• OXE800 - Ethernet to dual SATA NAS controller with encryption Linux operating system and Oxford firmware

Processor

• 200MHz ARM926EJ-S Processor
  

Note

My Driver had some problems. It takes too much time to boot up and sometimes it wouldn't work and light single blue light. When I powered my device on all the blue lights.

In that case I solder OXE800 IC and finally my device began to work. Also I have added a heat sink to absorb heat for OXE800 SATA to Ethernet controller.

You can change or replace HardDisk with another SATA drive. File system on original drive is EXT3. Just plug SATA PC and boot with linux and use "lshw -C disk" and you can see Drive details. (Clone OS to new HDD)

/dev/sdb1 ext3 2.80GB
/dev/sdb2 lunux-swap 101.38MB
/dev/sdb3 ext3 964.84MB
/dev/sdb4 ext3 461.89GB

LIRC and winLIRC

What is LIRC

LIRC is a package that allows you to decode and send infra-red signals of many (but not all) commonly used remote controls. With your Serial interface based infrared transmitter and receiver you can configure LIRC.

The most important part of the LIRC is decoding IR signals received by the device drivers and provide the information on a serial port. It will also accept commands for IR signals to be sent using an IR transmitter. It will also translate the decoded IR signals to mouse movements. In linux environment You can configure X to use your remote control as an input device.

The user space applications will allow you to control your computer with your remote controller. You can start programs and much more on just one button press with any remote controller.

The possible applications are obvious: Infra-red mouse, remote control for your TV tuner card or CD-ROM, shutdown by remote, program your VCR and/or satellite tuner with your computer, etc.

Make IR receiver for serial interface

Make IR transmitter for serial interface

Configure winLIRC

Download winLIRC from winlirc.sourceforge.net and unzip it.Find winlirc.exe and run exe. When you run that (in none configured) and you get an error saying that WinLIRC failed to initialize. Ignore it and click OK and go forward and it will open this window.

In winLIRC configuration window select your COM port and where your IR receiver is connected. Make configuration file to save your IR codes from your remote controllers. Click and browse where you want to make configuration file and type your file name with .cfg extension and click open.

To learn IR signals from your remote controller and make IR code configuration files to your universal IR remote controller or control your PC with remote controller click the learn button. Then you will get this message box.

"This will record the signals from your remote controller and create a config file for WinLIRC."




Input your remote controller's name and press enter. ("Desired margin of error for this remote? (1-99, enter=25)") enter for default value. Again just hit ENTER ("Gap and length?") . Now you will enter button programming section with "Press a Button" message .




Now you will get a message saying "press a button". Press one button and wait a second and press it again. Then you'll get a message "Baseline initialized". Now you have to press different 10 buttons and when you get the message "Enter button name" enter your button's name and learn all of your buttons of your remote.

After completing learn remote controller IR codes hit enter with blank to exit and click OK. click analyze from winLIRC configuration window and click OK. Now you finished IR learning mode. You can save that configuration file to use later with winLIRC. You can make collection of codes to make a Universal Infrared Remote Controller. Click OK from winLIRC configuration window and click "hide window". This will minimize the WinLIRC application to the system tray(the gray icon in your system tray), where WinLIRC listens to your remote IR commands. This indicates that WinLIRC is waiting for IR commands.

Now you can use winLIRC plug in for Winamp to controller Winamp or you can use Girder, pcremote, or rcontrol like software to control your PC. Try to use IR mouse emulator software.

After making the universal remote you can send codes from this software or use GUI programmable remote controller software.

IrCode from www.lirc.org

Simple Universal Infrared Transmmeter for serial interface

Simple Universal Infrared Receiver for Serial interface

How to control a PC with your IR Receiver

Make a Programmable Universal IR Remote Controller with your IR Receiver

Speed up your computer

How to speed up your computer to get your work done fast?

Commonly people are think to change hardware components like CPU, RAM or motherboard to speed up their computers. But they forget Hard Disk is one of the main components that icreases speed of a computer(boot time, data flow, application access times). Are you using an IDE hard disk drive to boot your PC? If your answer is Yes here is the best way to speed up your PC.

1) which IDE cable are you using ?

To get the best performance you should use 80 conductor Ultra ATA cable. You should check your Mother board and BIOS capability before use it. Enable that Ultra-DMA feature on Windows Xp

• Start - > Control Panel - > System -> and Open Device Manager from the Hardware tab
• Double-click IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers to display the list of controllers and channels
• Right-click the icon for the channel to which the device is connected, select Properties, and then click the Advanced Settings tab.
• In the Current Transfer Mode drop-down box, select DMA if Available if the current setting is "PIO Only."If the drop-down box already shows "DMA if Available" but the current transfer mode is PIO you can change your cable 40 conductor to to 80 conductor cable if Motherboard can support to it

PIO and Ultra DMA Bandwidth

Mode_____Maximum Transfer Rate (MB/s)

PIO Mode 0_____3.3 MB/s

PIO Mode 1_____ 5.2 MB/s

PIO Mode 2_____ 8.3 MB/s

PIO Mode 3_____ 11.1 MB/s

PIO Mode 4_____ 16.7 MB/s

Ultra DMA Mode 0______16.7MB/s

Ultra DMA Mode 1_____ 25.0 MB/s

Ultra DMA Mode 2_____ 33.3 MB/s

Ultra DMA Mode 3_____ 44.4MB/s

Ultra DMA Mode 4_____ 66.7MB/s

Ultra DMA Mode 5_____ 100.0MB/s

Ultra DMA Mode 6_____ 133 MB/s

2) Selecting the best drive and best partition to install an operation system

You can use BartPE like software to make a live bootable Windows CD- ROM or download miniPE and test your hard drive bandwidth ( MBp/s ) . You can also use HD Tune 2.5.5.0 or HD_Speed for this. To get the best results, try to test without an OS on the Hard Drive which is to be tested.

3) Determine what is the best drive and Creating a bootable partition

Find best speed drive and you can use that to install OS. Check your speed result and if your drive starts with a low bandwidth you shouldn't use those areas. Arrange your partition following your drive test results and test your partition using HD_Speed software.