[mythtv-users] warning for anyone with western digital green drives

Kris B. krisbee at krisbee.com
Fri Jan 6 23:33:29 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jan 5, 2012, at 10:04 PM, Gregorio Gervasio, Jr. wrote:
> >>>>> Ronald Frazier writes:
> [...]
> > Apparently this is a very common problem noted by many linux users
> > with these drives. The way to solve this problem is download the
> > wdidle3 utility (you must boot into DOS to run it) and use it to
> > either disable the feature or set the timeout to a larger value.
> 
> 
>         This runs under Linux:
> 
> http://idle3-tools.sourceforge.net/
> 
> It worked for me, but use at your own risk.
> -- 
> Gregorio Gervasio, Jr.
> gregorio.gervasio at gmail.com

Thanks for the link.. I ended up setting mine to 120s... hope that is
long enough.. Glad I didn't have to worry about making a boot disk and
all that... this utility worked like a charm.
-- 
  Kris B.
  krisbee at krisbee.com


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