Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:18:55 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: Western Digital GreenPower drives and Linux |
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Christian Pernegger wrote: > > Will set the timeout to 25sec using the DOS kludge and see what > happens ... doubt it will help much, though. I'd much rather like to > know what causes the drives to load heads again so soon after the > unload. With the usage pattern of these drives they should stay > unloaded most of the time here. > > Being able to set the timeout online via hdparm would be nice, too :) ..
That can be arranged. I just need a copy of the DOS utility that does it now.
Cheers
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