Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 10:41:24 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Acer Aspire One D250 disk spin-down problem Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101161034300.21158@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20110116152844.GA1939@tinyCurrent> References: <20110116072411.GA3732@tinyCurrent> <20110116100539.00007e0a@unknown> <20110116152844.GA1939@tinyCurrent>
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2011, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El d??a Sunday, January 16, 2011 a las 10:05:39AM +0000, Bruce Cran escribi??: > >> On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:24:13 +0100 >> Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: >> >>> Master: ad4 <WDC WD2500BEVT-22ZCT0/11.01A11> SATA revision 2.x >> >>> As well the BIOS has no visible option for this. I want to disable >>> this, what could I do? >> >> Since it's a WDC disk I guess it's one of the "green" ones. These have >> a short default timeout after which they park the heads. I think you'd >> need to run the wdidle3.exe application to disable the internal timer, > > Thanks, but wdidle3.exe is no option because the laptop does not know > any Win* partition anymore :-) It's actually a DOS application and can even be run from a DOS-formatted syslinux memdisk. Not all WD drives can be adjusted with it. A 500G BEVT drive says it changed, but still seems to have an 8-second timeout.
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