Re: Use of WD20EARS with MDADM

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Tim Small <tim@buttersideup.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Yeah, that's been reported here before, but how does someone run this
Windows program on a remote machine that boots only Linux? Even if it
was a DOS executable the machine has no floppy. I presume you are
dual-boot with Windows? If so maybe I'll install Windows the next time
I visit.

I presume I cannot run this in a VM?

It's unfortunate that this drive doesn't respond to APM commands either.

- Mark
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