Re: Western Digital GreenPower drives and Linux

["Mike Snitzer" <snitzer@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 3:11 AM, Tvrtko A. Ursulin <tvrtko@ursulin.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 12 April 2008 04:19:33 Mike Snitzer wrote:
>  > Any chance you could make your iso available for the freedos w/
>  > wdidle3.exe bootable cd?
>  >
>  > I can't track down wdidle3.exe on wdc.com; they have "Data Lifeguard"
>  > and such but I have no idea if the wdidle3.exe is buried in those
>  > downloads.
>
>  According to the licence which comes with that thing distribution is not
>  allowed. Also it wouldn't be bad if more people contacted WD about it so that
>  they figure out they at least need to make it available as a download, if not
>  something better.

Just an FYI, I had a look at my counters for a 1TB GP I've had in
always-on service (expansion drive for my tivo; which runs Linux) for
6 months.  I'm not seeing any issues, Load_Cycle_Count is quite low.

Device Model:     WDC WD10EACS-32ZJB0
Firmware Version: 01.01B01

   9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   094   094   000    Old_age
Always       -       4763
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       7
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age
Always       -       9

Given the Tivo is constantly doing IO it must've prevented the disk
from ever spinning down.