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 1OJUSF-0006uS-77 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:36:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A8DDCE0C4B; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 16:36:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3057EE0C5D for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 16:36:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 01 Jun 2010 16:36:06 -0000 Received: from p5485110A.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO gmx.net) [84.133.17.10] by mail.gmx.net (mp008) with SMTP; 01 Jun 2010 18:36:06 +0200 X-Authenticated: #20088476 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18u7bJTzasuEczd220qpJylBRk8rocq+MG2wVWuXM 9WH6niluBi6wW7 Received: by gmx.net (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 Meino.Cramer@gmx.de; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 18:36:06 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 18:36:06 +0200 From: meino.cramer@gmx.de To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Widdle and WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 Message-ID: <20100601163606.GA5101@solfire> References: <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 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 79877318-360e-4fef-a931-91dda3ae49e1 X-Archives-Hash: 0c44924b6c7e93c63e9bc7392036f134 Paul Hartman [10-06-01 17:04]: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:35 AM, wrote: > > > > 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. > > I have 2TB samsung drives which, by default, park heads very quickly. > Using hdparm I changed power saving mode from "off" (which parks after > a minute) to "254" and now the heads never park. (Different levels can > give different results). Maybe your WD drive is similar. > Hi Paul, thanks fopr your help. When I submit a sudo hdparm -B /dev/sda I get back: /dev/sda: APM_level = not supported when I do a sudo hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda I get back /dev/sda: setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254) HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error APM_level = not supported so I think I loose the game. Or did you use other options? 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.