-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Ralf Mardorf <info.mardorf(a)rocketmail.com> To: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org Subject: Re: [LAU] Special Consideration for WD Green HDDs Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:09:05 +0100 On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 20:38 +0000, John Murphy wrote: It's a 3.5" and should do 7200rpm. I'll try idle3ctl -d https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Format#Disable_via_changing_f… if the USB controller doesn't allow to disable it, than I need to find out, how to open the case :(, without damaging it. [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# smartctl -i /dev/sdc smartctl 6.0 2012-10-10 r3643 [x86_64-linux-3.7.10-1-ARCH] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-12, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD20EZRX-00DC0B0 Serial Number: WD-WMC300753067 LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 65863b194 Firmware Version: 80.00A80 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated) SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 1.5 Gb/s) Local Time is: Thu Mar 14 22:04:48 2013 CET SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled If it would work as it did in the BIOS, I wouldn't disable it :(. -- ASCII Ribbon Campaign http://www.asciiribbon.org/index-de.html