From: "Tvrtko A. Ursulin" <tvrtko@ursulin.net>
To: devzero@web.de
Cc: lkml@metanurb.dk, pernegger@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: Western Digital GreenPower drives and Linux
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:00:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804112200.28854.tvrtko@ursulin.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <234148243@web.de>
> >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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-11 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-10 22:36 Western Digital GreenPower drives and Linux devzero
2008-04-11 21:00 ` Tvrtko A. Ursulin [this message]
2008-04-12 3:19 ` Mike Snitzer
2008-04-12 7:11 ` Tvrtko A. Ursulin
2008-04-12 15:20 ` Mike Snitzer
2008-04-12 15:56 ` Mike Snitzer
2008-04-13 8:30 ` Niels
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-09 20:18 Tvrtko A. Ursulin
2008-04-10 7:48 ` Tvrtko A. Ursulin
2008-04-10 12:44 ` Kasper Sandberg
2008-04-10 15:01 ` Christian Pernegger
2008-04-12 17:11 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-13 15:41 ` Mark Lord
2008-04-16 11:40 ` Helge Hafting
2008-04-16 17:59 ` Christian Pernegger
2008-04-16 18:18 ` Mark Lord
2008-04-16 19:44 ` Tvrtko A. Ursulin
2008-04-16 19:46 ` Tvrtko A. Ursulin
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