Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Widdle and WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1

2010-06-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:35 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, The WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 1TB green harddisk has an design flaw: The heads are parked after a much too short time. Or in other words: The designed maximum of head-park-cycles are reached much too fast. I have 2TB samsung drives

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Widdle and WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1

2010-06-01 Thread luis jure
on 2010-06-01 at 01:23 Paul Hartman wrote: I have 2TB samsung drives which, by default, park heads very quickly. Using hdparm I changed power saving mode from off (which parks after a minute) to 254 and now the heads never park. i have a drive similar to the OP (WD10EADS) and the problem is

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Widdle and WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1

2010-06-01 Thread meino . cramer
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [10-06-01 17:04]: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:35 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, The WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 1TB green harddisk has an design flaw: The heads are parked after a much too short time. Or in other words: The designed maximum of

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Widdle and WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1

2010-06-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:36 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [10-06-01 17:04]: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:35 AM,  meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, The WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 1TB green harddisk has an design flaw: The heads are parked after a much

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Widdle and WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1

2010-06-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:36 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [10-06-01 17:04]: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:35 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, The WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 1TB green harddisk has an design flaw: The heads are parked after a much

[gentoo-user] OT: Widdle and WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1

2010-05-31 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, The WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 1TB green harddisk has an design flaw: The heads are parked after a much too short time. Or in other words: The designed maximum of head-park-cycles are reached much too fast. WD has offered a tool called widdle, which seem to modify the timer settings of that part