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 <g...@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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