[mythtv-users] Spin down drives

[Mark Lord]

On 11-05-12 09:48 AM, John Drescher wrote:
>>> 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.

Yeah.  I actually use a USB-floppy drive with a DOS-boot floppy
that I created with Windows-98..  Does the job nicely.

Cheers