On Thu, 30 May 2013 12:34:58 -0700 Gary Roach <gary719_li...@verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi all, > I have found multiple warnings about Linux and the short head parking > time of the WD Green drives. I have seen multiple instances of the use > of the wdidle.exe package to reset this to say 30 seconds. But Western > Digital emphatically states that that utility in only for about 3 > "not-WD10EZRX" drives. Is this utility safe to use on the drive in > question or not? Hi. It's really simple - do you have the source code of this wdidle.exe utility? What about running this wdidle.exe on Linux? If both are 'yes', well, good for you. If both are 'no' - for all you know, it WILL brick your harddrive, steal all food from your fridge, and will do unspeakable things to kittens. Never use this thing. Instead, go to http://idle3-tools.sourceforge.net/, and get yourself an excellent idle3-tools, which is the free software, and actually works. I've used it myself to disable this questionable head parking on WDC WD7500AARS-00Y5B1 with success. Reco. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130531001925.1657cd6df23b47cb76b54...@gmail.com
