https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=386555
User roland.kletzing@materna.de added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=386555#c25
roland kletzing
Aieeeeeeeee.......... This is nasty. The BIOS / drive vendors are setting APM to aggressive values w/ idle IO access pattern of windows on mind. The setting is too aggressive to the point of being fragile and different idle IO pattern causes the drive to unload like crazy && you can't really expect Linux or any other operating system to have similar idle IO pattern as windows. :-(
even worse - there are disks on the market which don`t let you tune the timeouts with standard methods. you need to get a proprietary DOS *sigh* tool to tune the unload interval - and WD support may give that to you - or not.... see these threads: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120777293511872&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121071269907588&w=2 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.