Gary Roach wrote:
> Thanks for the help. The real fix is as follows:
> 1. The WD hard disks really are set to an 8 second head time
> out. Three of my disks were beating themselves to death. This was
> determined by installing smartmontools and running smartctl -a
> /dev/yourdrive. Find the sec
On 05/30/2013 12:34 PM, Gary Roach 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
On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 03:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 12:33 -0700, Gary Roach wrote:
> > I have found multiple warnings about Linux and the short head parking
> > time of the WD Green drives.
>
> Again that misinformation :(.
>
> The only issue is bad Linux code, e.g. gv
On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 12:33 -0700, Gary Roach wrote:
> I have found multiple warnings about Linux and the short head parking
> time of the WD Green drives.
Again that misinformation :(.
The only issue is bad Linux code, e.g. gvfs makes them spin down and up
again and again, but if you remove gvf
On May 30, 2013, at 7:06 PM, Gary Roach wrote:
> Several people on blogs have recommended its use but WD says don't.
I'm sorry I don't have an actual answer from personal experience, but I would
like to think if WD says not to use it, then I would probably avoid it.
Noah
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On 05/30/2013 04:19 PM, Richard Hector wrote:
On 31/05/13 11:03, Lisi Reisz wrote:
That's a dangerously selective quote. The "for all you know, " is rather
significant.
Oh, come off it! Dangerous? All he said was that the choice of those
particular words, that particular mode of expression h
On 31/05/13 11:03, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>> That's a dangerously selective quote. The "for all you know, " is rather
>> > significant.
> Oh, come off it! Dangerous? All he said was that the choice of those
> particular words, that particular mode of expression had made his
> evening. "for all you
On Thursday 30 May 2013 23:50:08 Richard Hector wrote:
> On 31/05/13 08:19, recovery...@gmail.com wrote:
> > 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'
On 31/05/13 08:19, recovery...@gmail.com wrote:
> 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 f
Hi,
Dňa 30.05.2013 22:19 recovery...@gmail.com wrote / napísal(a):
> it WILL brick your harddrive,
> steal all food from your fridge, and will do unspeakable things to
> kittens.
these words are reason, why i love the people around of free software
(and associated MLs) :-)))
I see that you are
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-WD1
On Thu, 30 May 2013 12:34:58 -0700
Gary Roach 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 emp
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-WD1
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