On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. Turns out 'wdidle3 /R' on my drive reported: "Idle3 Timer is disabled" I took no explicit action to disable it 6 months ago. It strikes me as odd that WD would disable the Idle3 timer in firmware given the whole "GreenPower" campaign but I was pleasantly surprised; others may be too... -- 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
