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WD Red Drive Head Parking - New Tool from WD
Just learned the Western Digital has posted a new tool on their download page that supposedly helps with the Head Parking issue on these Red Drives. If you go to the WD support page, under downloads,...
Hi,
Just got my RED drives and wanted to check them with the tool but it does not see my drive - which is perfectly working now under windows. I have connected it by SATA to the Intel port of the motherboard - which is the primary controller.
It sees another WDC drive (esata) I have on the system, but it doesn't see the RED.
Ideas?
EDIT: tried on the other controller - both on the motherboard - still no luck
Just got my RED drives and wanted to check them with the tool but it does not see my drive - which is perfectly working now under windows. I have connected it by SATA to the Intel port of the motherboard - which is the primary controller.
It sees another WDC drive (esata) I have on the system, but it doesn't see the RED.
Ideas?
EDIT: tried on the other controller - both on the motherboard - still no luck
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