From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OJ7y3-0004y4-OU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 May 2010 16:35:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 904DBE086D; Mon, 31 May 2010 16:35:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 362E8E087B for ; Mon, 31 May 2010 16:35:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 31 May 2010 16:35:29 -0000 Received: from p54850B3D.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO gmx.net) [84.133.11.61] by mail.gmx.net (mp064) with SMTP; 31 May 2010 18:35:29 +0200 X-Authenticated: #20088476 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+5ptIyJMa5uvU29l1u56oryxBe5yBHgXPElhp73b yFf1n+nrhJEBRR Received: by gmx.net (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 Meino.Cramer@gmx.de; Mon, 31 May 2010 18:35:29 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 18:35:28 +0200 From: meino.cramer@gmx.de To: Gentoo Subject: [gentoo-user] OT: Widdle and WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 Message-ID: <20100531163528.GA5051@solfire> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 9975ce83-f72f-41d5-8d61-9e4f23a4bf50 X-Archives-Hash: 927da966a6cfdcb9cb9f9fafe76e305a Hi, The WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 1TB "green" harddisk has an design flaw: The heads are parked after a much too short time. Or in other words: The designed maximum of head-park-cycles are reached much too fast. WD has offered a tool called widdle, which seem to modify the timer settings of that part of the firmware, which is responsible for the parking of the heads. Has somewhere out there applied widdle to a WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 1TB harddisk with success with -for example- a freedos bootdisk? Thank you very much in advance for any help and info! Best regards, mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.