WD2002FYPS - 2TB

Found this in the for Business forum regarding this drive
viewtopic.php?f=50&t=28766&p=171054#p171054

Muxje wrote:
WDC make a tool called WDIdle3.exe with which you can turn off the Green sleep feature (Google for the tool, it's not on the WDC site).

Which command line parameters you use? Show me your command line, please.

dat4wd wrote:
Muxje wrote: WDC make a tool called WDIdle3.exe with which you can turn off the Green sleep feature (Google for the tool, it's not on the WDC site). Which command line parameters you use? Show me your command line, please.

I used:
wdidle3 /d
This disables idle3 mode completely. See also the thread I posted a link to earlier (page 15)

If either the Readynas or the disk's firmware is fixed so the two work correctly together, the same tool can be used to re-enable the Green idle3 mode.

Muxje wrote:

dat4wd wrote: Muxje wrote: WDC make a tool called WDIdle3.exe with which you can turn off the Green sleep feature (Google for the tool, it's not on the WDC site). Which command line parameters you use? Show me your command line, please. I used: wdidle3 /d This disables idle3 mode completely. See also the thread I posted a link to earlier (page 15) If either the Readynas or the disk's firmware is fixed so the two work correctly together, the same tool can be used to re-enable the Green idle3 mode.

@muxje - Do I need to attached the hard drive through a SATA interface to use wdidle. Or can I use a USB enclosure (which would be much easier).

Also, what version of wdidle3 are you using - I can only find version 1.0 for download.

Thanks

I used version 1.0. You need to connect the drive to a Sata interface, disconnect all other drives, then boot the pc into DOS from floppy, USB stick or cd. Then use the wdidle tool

One more quesion - How do I acces wdidle3 from DOS? I was going to use a CD with FreeDos on it, but then where do I put the actual wdidle3 exe? Bit of a newbie, so any details would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

I'd checked LCC again:

disk 1 200,003
disk 2 108,313
disk 3 068,132
disk 4 200,004

dat4wd wrote:
I'd checked LCC again: disk 1 200,003 disk 2 108,313 disk 3 068,132 disk 4 200,004

Looks good... did you run the wdidle3 tool?

Muxje wrote:
dat4wd wrote: I'd checked LCC again: disk 1 200,003 disk 2 108,313 disk 3 068,132 disk 4 200,004 Looks good... did you run the wdidle3 tool?

Not yet. Yesterday after I'd checked LCC, I'd upgraded to 4.1.6. I will see LLC after one week.

Just got my 2TB discs. Trying to use Freedos with wdidle3. If I burn the Freedos iso to disc I can't seem to add wdidle to the same disc (it closes the disc). I tried to just burn the FReedos files and add wdidle3 at the root level of the CD, but then the CD won't boot at all.

I'm sure I must be missing some basic idea about how to set up the Freedose boot CD with wdidle3. Can someone explain how to burn the CD so it will work. Thanks!