* Load cycle and spin down software fixup for WD20EADS and other drives
@ 2011-06-20 15:35 Marc MERLIN
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From: Marc MERLIN @ 2011-06-20 15:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
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For the list archives (or the wiki if someone can update it), I should post
a fix I wrote years ago for two problems with those WD green drives (a few
others are affected too).
wdidle3 is required to tweak some firmware bits that stop the heads from
parking every 8 seconds on linux.
And then the drives will not properly spin down on a timeout like most
drives will hdparm -S 12
As sad as it is, I wrote a small daemon that checks disk access with iostat
and manually spins the drives down if needed:
http://marc.merlins.org/perso/linux/post_2010-08-03_Spinning-Down-WD20EADS-Drives-and-Fixing-Load-Cycle.html
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/scripts/swdisksusp
Hope this helps someone
Marc
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