Hacking Possible solution to harddrives sleeping / spinning down

[mikesmithy]

I found a program called NoSleepHD that's made to prevent harddrives going into sleep mode, but it will only work if you have the drive connected to your PC (I emailed the designer).

What it does is write a blank text file to your harddrive every X amount of minutes. Then it just keeps re-writing the same file, so it takes up almost no space at all.


This seems like a pretty easy thing. Is it possible to have something like this coded in homebrew?

 

[Dinoguy]

You could do that or the better solution which works with the wii and any other usb enable machine is to use this on your usb hardrive. Ignore the for Maxtor Drives only part.

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?loca...000f5ee0a0aRCRD

 

[Dinoguy]

or you can use theis better software. It works on all usb enable machinery
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?loca...000f5ee0a0aRCRD

 

[mikesmithy]

I tried the Maxtor program but it wouldn't recognize my drive at all! Do I have to use it before it gets reformated for Wii?

 

[aardvarks]

these programes dont work on vista lads

 

[mikesmithy]

I'm using XP, but I still can't get the Maxtor program to recognize my harddrive!

 

[mikesmithy]

Does anybody know of any other program to do this? Or any other possible solution? I can't get the seagate/maxtor program to recognize my drive. I know the drive works fine though - I've used it as a backup drive for about a year and it works fine for the wii (except for this sleep/spindown issue)!

 

[SpaceJump]

these programes dont work on vista lads
QUOTESupported Operating Systems: Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate, Windows XP Home, XP Professional, XP Media Center Edition, Mac OS X (10.4.7 – 10.5.x)

 

[wingzrow]

I'm getting a 250gb seagate soon, do I use this program before or AFTER i format?

 

[dsfanatic5]

I'm using XP, but I still can't get the Maxtor program to recognize my harddrive!
That program is designed for Maxtor and Seagate brand drives only. Western Digital owners are taking theirs apart, and using a SATA cable to apply different software using command line. The wiki seems inconsistant, since there might be 10 confirmations, but not all the details are listed for each person. I think the wikis here at gbatemp should have their own sub-forums, where each drive could be discussed to further detail. My Seagate freeagent Go 500gb will be showing up in the next few days, and I hope everything goes well (using 8gb thumb drive for testing right now).

QUOTEI'm getting a 250gb seagate soon, do I use this program before or AFTER i format?

I read in another post that you can use this software after the drive has been formatted to wbfs. The guy thought it wouldn't work, but it recognized the drive and he was able to turn the power saving off.