On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 3:11 AM, Tvrtko A. Ursulin <tvrtko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Saturday 12 April 2008 04:19:33 Mike Snitzer wrote: > > 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. > > According to the licence which comes with that thing distribution is not > allowed. Also it wouldn't be bad if more people contacted WD about it so that > they figure out they at least need to make it available as a download, if not > something better. Just an FYI, I had a look at my counters for a 1TB GP I've had in always-on service (expansion drive for my tivo; which runs Linux) for 6 months. I'm not seeing any issues, Load_Cycle_Count is quite low. Device Model: WDC WD10EACS-32ZJB0 Firmware Version: 01.01B01 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 094 094 000 Old_age Always - 4763 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 7 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 9 Given the Tivo is constantly doing IO it must've prevented the disk from ever spinning down. -- 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
