Messages in this thread | | | From | "Tvrtko A. Ursulin" <> | Subject | Re: Western Digital GreenPower drives and Linux | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:00:28 +0100 |
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> >I got back from WD's tech support and received a DOS utility which can > > control this drive feature, apparently using vendor specific commands. > > With it head unload timer can be disabled or set to a period between > > 100ms and 25.5s.
Followup with some good news.
Head unload timer settings seems to be persistent across powering off. Having set it to a maximum value of 25.5 seconds my disk is now behaving much more reasonable.
To actually do it I used FreeDOS floppy image burnt on a CD-RW as a bootable image plus wdidle3.exe in the filesystem itself.
BTW, WD's tech support has gone silent so chances for an easier solution are not so great.
Tvrtko
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