On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Tvrtko A. Ursulin <tvrtko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >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. Any chance you could make your iso available for the freedos w/ wdidle3.exe bootable cd? I can't track down wdidle3.exe on wdc.com; they have "Data Lifeguard" and such but I have no idea if the wdidle3.exe is buried in those downloads. thanks, Mike -- 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
