[SOLVED] disabling head uloading?

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trxman
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[SOLVED] disabling head uloading?

Post by trxman » Thu Oct 25, 2007 11:54 am

I have 2.5" drives in my desktop box.

there's no need to park heads every time drive is idle because there will be no accidental falls nor g-forces.
parking/returning of hdd heads is audiable and there's (I guess) some performance hit.

is it possible to "instruct" drive not to park heads every time it's idle?
Last edited by trxman on Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:50 pm, edited 1 time in total.

trxman
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Post by trxman » Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:49 pm

guess I've found the way to stop incrising

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193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   093   093   000    Old_age   Always       -       14343
and, it's:

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hdparm -B254 /dev/sda
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-79055.html
http://web.glandium.org/blog/?p=54
http://paul.luon.net/journal/hacking/BrokenHDDs.html

any info how to do that in windows?

jojo4u
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Post by jojo4u » Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:53 pm

Hdparm is available for Windows, too.

viewtopic.php?t=37678&highlight=hdparm

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