From: Tim Small <tim@buttersideup.com>
To: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
Cc: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
st0ff@npl.de, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Use of WD20EARS with MDADM
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:40:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BCF4693.3020101@buttersideup.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y2x5bdc1c8b1004211036ra8e10a43kc1a13c2b374a5f7b@mail.gmail.com>
Mark Knecht wrote:
> This machine only gets a few hours of use a day but is generally
> powered up all the time. I don't know why Linux wakes this drive up
> roughly every two minutes, assuming it's Linux and not the drive
> itself or something on the motherboard, but it does.
>
This is documented here:
https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Known_issues#Drives_which_perform_frequent_head_unloads_under_Linux
If you want to fix it, then wdidle3.exe worked for me. Search for:
wdidle3_1_00.zip
Tim.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-21 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-25 16:20 Use of WD20EARS with MDADM Andrew Dunn
2010-03-25 17:01 ` Asdo
2010-03-25 17:58 ` Mark Knecht
2010-03-25 20:23 ` John Robinson
2010-03-26 10:45 ` Asdo
2010-03-25 17:10 ` David Lethe
2010-03-25 17:45 ` Asdo
2010-03-28 16:19 ` Stefan *St0fF* Huebner
2010-03-29 16:59 ` WD20EARS data Stefan /*St0fF*/ Hübner
2010-03-29 17:13 ` Stefan /*St0fF*/ Hübner
2010-04-14 19:53 ` Use of WD20EARS with MDADM Bill Davidsen
2010-04-19 14:17 ` Phillip Susi
2010-04-21 13:20 ` Bill Davidsen
2010-04-21 13:45 ` Tim Small
2010-04-21 14:32 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-04-21 21:58 ` Berkey B Walker
2010-05-02 22:33 ` Bill Davidsen
2010-05-03 0:08 ` Berkey B Walker
2010-04-21 15:14 ` Phillip Susi
2010-04-21 16:42 ` Bill Davidsen
2010-04-21 17:36 ` Mark Knecht
2010-04-21 18:40 ` Tim Small [this message]
2010-04-21 19:01 ` Mark Knecht
2010-04-21 19:31 ` Clinton Lee Taylor
2010-04-22 0:51 ` Steven Haigh
2010-04-21 19:33 ` Phillip Susi
2010-04-21 20:36 ` Mark Knecht
2010-05-12 13:06 ` Tim Small
2010-04-22 11:40 ` wdidle3 Tim Small
2010-04-22 16:13 ` Use of WD20EARS with MDADM Khelben Blackstaff
2010-04-22 18:16 ` Simon Matthews
2010-04-22 19:44 ` Phillip Susi
2010-04-22 23:23 ` Mark Knecht
2010-04-23 0:03 ` Richard Scobie
2010-04-23 1:29 ` Mark Knecht
2010-04-23 3:49 ` Phillip Susi
2010-04-23 3:44 ` Phillip Susi
2010-04-21 15:52 ` Simon Matthews
2010-04-21 19:24 ` Richard Scobie
2010-03-26 20:27 ` Peter Kieser
2010-03-26 20:59 ` Mark Knecht
2010-03-26 21:01 ` Peter Kieser
2010-03-26 21:06 ` Mark Knecht
2010-03-26 21:16 ` Mark Knecht
2010-03-26 21:19 ` Richard Scobie
2010-03-26 22:38 ` Mark Knecht
2010-03-26 22:47 ` Peter Kieser
2010-03-26 22:50 ` Matt Garman
2010-03-26 22:51 ` Peter Kieser
2010-03-26 23:01 ` David Rees
2010-03-27 23:31 ` Mark Knecht
2010-03-26 21:45 ` Matt Garman
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