Re: WDIDLE.EXE use on WD10EZRX disk (SOLVED)

2013-06-03 Thread Bob Proulx
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

Re: WDIDLE.EXE use on WD10EZRX disk (SOLVED)

2013-06-01 Thread Gary Roach
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