On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Morgan Wesström wrote: > The disks involved don't happen to be Western Digital Green Power > disks, do they? The Intelli-Park function in these disks are wrecking > havoc with I/O in Linux-land at least, causing massive stalls and > iowait through the roof during the 25-30 seconds it takes for the > heads to unload after parking. I have two of these disks sitting on > my desk now collecting dust...
There's this.. http://www.silentpcreview.com/Terabyte_Drive_Fix and you can get the tool at.. http://home.arcor.de/ghostadmin/wdidle3_1_00.zip I am planning to try this out tonight.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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