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. -- 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
