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How to get wdiddle3 to set iddle timer for WD EARS drive |
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Here are simple to follow steps on how to disable and set timer for head parking with WD EARS drive. To do this task we are going to use wdiddle3 utility developed by Wester Digital. According to the Western Digital the wdiddle3 utility was not designed to be used with EARS drives so no warranty ! In particula my own drive did not take it well when i completelly disabled parking idle timer as I could hear strange clicking sound almost every second.
The utility runs only from a DOS so we need to use freedos.
- get freedos iso ( fdfullcd.iso (153MB) ) and burn it to cd-rw ( 153MB ) with multi-session
- get wdidle3 utility: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=609&sid=113
- there are suggestions to burn freedos and wdidle3 on the same cd using multi-session but that did not work for me from some reason. What i did was that I had 2 cd-rw cd's . One with freedos bootable and second with wdidle3 on it.
- reboot with freedos cd
- I had some problems with cdrom the only thing that worked was to after boot hit ENTER and then choose 1 " install to hard... " Select language to ENG and then Run free dos from CDROM
- then you get to the prompt with X: which is your cdrom. Swap disc's now. list files with dir command to make sure that wdidle3.exe is in your current directory and then enter:
X:>wdidle3 /D
to this will disable
Idle3 Timer is Disabled
or
X:>wdidle3 /S255
to set timer to 4.5 min where you can choose number from 1 to 255 mil sec
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Thanks for the post, it was useful for me. But I used an alternative that I think it is easier. It requires just a usb stick.
1 - Download unetbootin:
'sudo apt-get install unetbootin' or direct from www.unetbootin.sourceforge.net
2 - Start the application. Select FreeDos as distribution in the main dialog. Your USB stick will probably be already selected in the lower dialog, if not, do it (remeber to format it first as FAT).
3 - The application will automatically download and install the odin version of freedos(just 1,4MB!). It will also make your usb bootable.
4 - Copy the wdidle3.exe to the usb stick.
5 - Reboot the system with the usb stick as first boot alternative. When asked select the live CD version of freeDOS.
6 - In the prompt type c:, so that you get to the root of the usb stick. Then type as usual wdidle3 /S255 and that's it!