tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623074010562846957.post8337544869406314378..comments2023-09-01T03:38:08.236-04:00Comments on Changing Bits: WDTLER and WDIDLE3Michael McCandlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04277432937861334672noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623074010562846957.post-75886930082414326952014-06-28T10:50:37.318-04:002014-06-28T10:50:37.318-04:00Meanwhile, I never did this when I got my drives. ...Meanwhile, I never did this when I got my drives. My drives have been running a few years and show up with 400,000+ head parks in the SMART diagnostics. 2/3 failed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623074010562846957.post-88295567276197645302013-11-27T11:29:46.409-05:002013-11-27T11:29:46.409-05:00No regrets! The drives did great, and I never hit...No regrets! The drives did great, and I never hit a failure. I've now replaced that original file server, after 3 years of service, with a newer one ...Michael McCandlesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04277432937861334672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623074010562846957.post-90595318881547112442013-11-27T11:02:47.628-05:002013-11-27T11:02:47.628-05:00"Check back in a couple of years to see if I ..."Check back in a couple of years to see if I have any regrets!"<br /><br />....So any Regrets??<br /><br />I am going to try using the new 4TB Green drives<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623074010562846957.post-15852010047220750772011-10-04T08:38:41.579-04:002011-10-04T08:38:41.579-04:00Regarding the second point you've remarked in ...Regarding the second point you've remarked in the article: I experienced the same on my netbook (Acer Aspire One), also supplied with a WD disk. Well, it turned out that you don't even need wdtler. I managed to change the settings with hdparm. Here's what I did:<br /><br />hdparm -B254 /dev/sda<br />hdparm -S180 /dev/sda<br /><br />Now, no more clicking and the disk has become very silent, too.<br /><br />Note that this must be executed upon each startup (/etc/rc.local) and after waking up from standby as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623074010562846957.post-51542469041253173462011-09-14T22:43:15.752-04:002011-09-14T22:43:15.752-04:00Thanks for the response...
Unfortunately.. fro...Thanks for the response... <br />Unfortunately.. from spending the last 3 days or so reading... It looks like you can no longer run the wdtler on the newer drives.. <br />And with hardware RAID, it sure seems like it could cause a major issue, I was looking forward to using the wd green drives.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623074010562846957.post-88832396714527211312011-09-14T12:18:40.498-04:002011-09-14T12:18:40.498-04:00Wow, it has been a bit over a couple of years alre...Wow, it has been a bit over a couple of years already!<br /><br />Absolutely no regrets: my original drives are still running just fine,<br />despite fairly heavy usage over this time. I installed a hot spare in<br />there, and it's never been used.Michael McCandlesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04277432937861334672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623074010562846957.post-25178170504036227302011-09-14T03:56:03.630-04:002011-09-14T03:56:03.630-04:00"Check back in a couple of years to see if I ..."Check back in a couple of years to see if I have any regrets!"<br /><br />....So any Regrets??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623074010562846957.post-68975945275687896522011-06-16T19:39:00.980-04:002011-06-16T19:39:00.980-04:00cheers - you helped me get there in end. managed t...cheers - you helped me get there in end. managed to disable head parking on my mac pro.Henrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623074010562846957.post-38500272798432911642010-01-13T08:11:13.389-05:002010-01-13T08:11:13.389-05:00The limit is 300000 seconds, not 25.5 seconds. F...The limit is 300000 seconds, not 25.5 seconds. From the help file:<br /><br />USAGE<br />WDIDLE3 [/S[]] [/D] [/R] [/?]<br />where:<br />/S[] Set timer, units in seconds. Default=8.0 (8.0 seconds).<br /> Resolution is 0.1 seconds from 0.1 to 12.7 seconds.<br /> Resolution is 30 seconds from 30 seconds to 300000 seconds.<br /> Note, times between 12.8 and 30 seconds will be set to 30 seconds.<br />/D Disable timer.<br />/R Report current timer.Todd Lyonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01647213159413325001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623074010562846957.post-9104353480070732172009-11-24T16:44:23.655-05:002009-11-24T16:44:23.655-05:00latest versions of firmware don't allow TLER m...latest versions of firmware don't allow TLER modificationsUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16595337506253045187noreply@blogger.com