On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Tim Small <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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_perform_frequent_head_unloads_under_Linux > > If you want to fix it, then wdidle3.exe worked for me. Search for: > > 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. - Mark -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
