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HOWTO: Disable WD IDLE3 via ReadyNAS
I did this on my ReadyNAS Ultra 4. I installed the RootSSH Access addon to get shell access and got the idle3-tools download link from http://idle3-tools.sourceforge.net/ # Install packages need...
mdgm wrote: Peekay the instructions are for x86 (i.e. NVX/Ultra/Pro) not for Sparc e.g. your NV+ (v1). Don't think the source code would be designed to run on Sparc anyway so even if you could get it to compile I wouldn't trust it.
Eeep - should I remove anything of what I've done?
Is there any way to alter the WD idle3 values on a Sparc machine?
Or is the alternative rigging the drives up to another machine to do it? (can I even do this once they have been in RAID?)
I also only have Windows machines other then the NAS so no easy way to run IDLE 3 Tools on a *IX environment.
Looking like I should have went Seagate drives ~_~
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