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edalquist
Apprentice
Dec 22, 2011

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 needed to compile idle3-tools
apt-get update
apt-get install libc6-dev gcc gdb libtag1-dev uuid-dev make automake

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

# 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"
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
tar -xzvf idle3-tools-0.9.1.tgz

# Compile idle3-tools
cd idle3-tools-0.9.1
make

# Disable the idle timer on each drive
./idle3ctl -d /dev/sda
./idle3ctl -d /dev/sdb
./idle3ctl -d /dev/sdc
./idle3ctl -d /dev/sdd


The last step is to shutdown (NOT REBOOT) the ReadyNAS, unplug it, then plug it back in and boot. The IDLE timer should now be disabled.

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