[mythtv-users] Spin down drives

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Thu May 12 13:48:01 UTC 2011


>> WD invented their own flavour of power management for their "Green" series.
>> In order for the ATA standard stuff to work, one must first disable the
>> WD version, by using the WDIDLE3.EXE program to completely turn "WDIDLE3" off.
>>
>> Once that is done, the drive begins to pay more attention to the regular
>> and advanced power management commands from the (S)ATA standards.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>
> Thanks Mark, I need to install it on a Windows machine? It is possible
> to connect with a SATA-USB converter?
>

I am pretty sure that is a dos program you can run with freedos. I
certainly did not install windows to use that on my mythtv box last
year.

John


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