Conrad, This will be something in your OS telling the drive to spin down at idle. On Linux this could be set using hdparm for example. Remember also that after running wdidle3 you need to power-cycle the drive for the settings to take effect.
Plus, I thought only WD Green drives needed wdidle3-ing as they are the only drives that automatically spin down at idle. The Black drives are designed for (desktop) RAID and do not spin down - I have one myself so I can attest to that. Cheers, Chris On 29 Apr 2012, at 12:10, Conrad Kostecki <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I've built in a western digital scorpio black 750gb drive into my soekris. > As I know, those drives have a problem with the load cycles, as there is > a timer set to 8 seconds. > I used directly from wd a tool called wdidle3. I disabled completly the > timer with it. > > This seems to be ignored on my soekris, as still the load cycles get higher. > But, when I build this drive into my notebook or external case and > attach it to my desktop pc, the load cycles to not get higher. > The timer is disabled and works as expected. What could be the cause on > the soekris? comBIOS problem? > > Thanks! > Conrad > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > -- Chris Boot [email protected] _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
