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From: Peter Kieser <peter@kieser.ca>
Subject: Re: Use of WD20EARS with MDADM
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:47:59 -0700
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On 3/26/2010 3:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I wonder if I'm seeing something like Matt is seeing with the drive
> continually being woken up. I know most of the time it just sits idle
> from a user's perspective, but I've done nothing to stop daemons or
> anything like that. It runs screen savers, gets used every day for an
> hour or two, but is always powered up so that I can administer it from
> 350 miles away.
>    

I originally noticed the problem after having the drives for 4 weeks. 
They LCC was at around 27,000 on each drive until I changed the timeout 
on the drives to 300 seconds.

-Peter