> >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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
