From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Knecht Subject: Re: Use of WD20EARS with MDADM Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:01:41 -0700 Message-ID: References: <4BAB8D41.4010801@gmail.com> <4BABA12D.6040605@shiftmail.org> <4BAF8185.9040307@gmx.net> <4BC61D47.6090403@tmr.com> <4BCC65EB.3080803@cfl.rr.com> <4BCEFB99.9080806@tmr.com> <4BCF163C.6040604@cfl.rr.com> <4BCF4693.3020101@buttersideup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4BCF4693.3020101@buttersideup.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Tim Small Cc: Phillip Susi , Bill Davidsen , st0ff@npl.de, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Tim Small wrot= e: > 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_perfo= rm_frequent_head_unloads_under_Linux > > If you want to fix it, then wdidle3.exe worked for me. =C2=A0Search f= or: > > 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= =2E - Mark -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html