On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 07:49:05PM -0500, Damian Gerow wrote: > Specific cases aside, writing to the FS is a workaround to a rather > inconvenient issue. I, too, would like to see if the problem is fixed, not > avoided, by using wdidle -- but I suspect I'll have to contact WD myself to > get that confirmation.
A convenient workaround indeed. Much easier than running DOS (I assume) firmware twidding programs or firmware updates. As for wdidle - see the tail end of http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=32179. Sufficient customer complaints might produce a real firmware fix. One thing I'm sure of - the next time I buy a set of disks for my home fileserver, I'll spend some time on research rather than rushing to join the queue (8-( -- Adrian Wontroba I'd rather just believe that it's done by little elves running around. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
