On Tuesday 10 April 2012 12:46:56 Toby Corkindale wrote:
It looks like someone has reversed engineered the DOS utility to disable/adjust the feature, though, so you can do it from Linux now. http://idle3-tools.sourceforge.net/
Nice find, though it looks like it doesn't work with USB connected WD Green drives (6400AAV)... :-( idle3-tools-0.9.1$ sudo ./idle3ctl -g /dev/sdb sg16(VSC_ENABLE) failed: Invalid exchange idle3-tools-0.9.1$ sudo smartctl -A /dev/sdb | grep "^193" 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 2571 -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP