Re: Western Digital GreenPower drives and Linux

[Mark Lord]

Christian Pernegger wrote:
> Will set the timeout to 25sec using the DOS kludge and see what
> happens ... doubt it will help much, though. I'd much rather like to
> know what causes the drives to load heads again so soon after the
> unload. With the usage pattern of these drives they should stay
> unloaded most of the time here.
>
> Being able to set the timeout online via hdparm would be nice, too :)
..

That can be arranged.  I just need a copy of the DOS utility that does it now.

Cheers
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