HOWTO: Disable WD IDLE3 via ReadyNAS

Help!

I'm following the OP's instructions to try and disable or alter the timer on my 2 WD20EARX drives on my ReadyNAS NV+

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be working as follows, I'll write notes next to each of the original steps incase somebody can see the problem.

# Install packages needed to compile idle3-tools
apt-get update - This works fine
apt-get install libc6-dev gcc gdb libtag1-dev uuid-dev make automake (First issues as follows):
Note, selecting automake1.4 instead of automake
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  automake1.4: Depends: autoconf but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: autotools-dev (>= 20010511.2) but it is not going to be installed
  gcc: Depends: cpp (>= 4:3.3.5-3) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: gcc-3.3 (>= 1:3.3.5-1) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: cpp-3.3 (>= 1:3.3.5-1) but it is not going to be installed
  libc6-dev: Depends: linux-kernel-headers but it is not going to be installed
  libtag1-dev: Depends: libtag1 (= 1.4-2bpo2.netgear2) but it is not going to be installed
  smbclient: Depends: samba-common (= 3.0.37.netgear2) but 2:3.5.15-netgear1 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
I continued on to see if it would work either way


# Do all work on /c (don't want to take any more space on the flash than we have to)
cd /c - fine

# Download & Extract idle3-tools
wget "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/idle3-tools/idle3-tools-0.9.1.tgz?r=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fidle3-tools%2F&ts=1324565985&use_mirror=superb-sea2" - fine
mv idle3-tools-0.9.1.tgz\?r\=http\:%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fidle3-tools%2F\&ts\=1324565985\&use_mirror\=superb-sea2 idle3-tools-0.9.1.tgz (issue as follows):
mv: cannot stat `idle3-tools-0.9.1.tgz?r=http:%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fidle3-tools%2F&ts=1324565985&use_mirror=superb-sea2': No such file or directory
nas-02-17-A3:/c# tar -xzvf idle3-tools-0.9.1.tgz
tar -xzvf idle3-tools-0.9.1.tgz - fine 

# Compile idle3-tools
cd idle3-tools-0.9.1 - fine
make - issue (as follows):
cc -g -O2 -W -Wall -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -fkeep-inline-functions -Wwrite-strings -Waggregate-return -Wnested-externs -Wtrigraphs    -c -o idle3ctl.o idle3ctl.c
make: cc: Command not found
make: *** [idle3ctl.o] Error 127

I stop at that point as the program isn't working.

Also how do I actually check the current cycle count of the drives?

Thanks in advance!