+1 Insightful. This is a gem of a tip - so much so that I've archived the text of this as I KNOW it will come in handy soon. It may be been semi-off topic, but it is worth its weight in gold! Thankyou! On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:31:27 +0200, Clinton Lee Taylor <clintonlee.taylor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings ... > > On 21 April 2010 21:01, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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. > Why don't you download FreeDOS boot floppy image. Add the DOS > program to the image. Copy image to your boot partition, add an entry > in your Boot Manager to boot the image using some line syslinux image > booter. > > On CentOS, install syslinux package using "yum install syslinux" > Copy memdisk to your boot partition > > From the www.freedos.org web site, download floppy image in > http://www.freedos.org/freedos/files/ ... > > wget -vb > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/fdboot.img > > Mount the downloaded image file with "mount fdboot.img /mnt/floppy/ -o > rw,loop" > > Copy DOS program into the floppy image. > > Add to your grub.conf file ... > > title FreeDOS - Boot Image > kernel memdisk > initrd fdboot.img > > Now reboot your system that does not have a floppy drive off the > FreeDOS image and run the DOS program to make changes. The only thing > I can think of that might be a problem, is that you might have the > drive attached to a SATA port that is not supported by the DOS program > or something like that. > > This is what I use to do BIOS and other firmware updates, that Linux > does not have a tool for. > > Mailed > LeeT > > P.S. Sorry for the Off Topic post, but I hope it helps. > -- > 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 -- Steven Haigh Email: netwiz@xxxxxxxxx Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299 -- 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
