How can I switch off HDD head parking?

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ViBE
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How can I switch off HDD head parking?

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I have a Western Digital Purple HDD now. As far as I know these kind of HDDs should spin 24/7 by default. And if I'm right Gargoyle has a different rule what spins down the disk after a short time. How can I permanently switch of/control this function?

RomanHK
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Re: How can I switch off HDD head parking?

Post by RomanHK »

I also dealt with it for a while, but hopelessly. It's not a Gargoyle thing, but Linux as such (OpenWrt). It works perfectly in Windows, but once I connect it to the router, it behaves incorrectly.

You can try hd-idle or hdparm opkg packages. Parameter settings will help google.
http://www2.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/pmwiki ... BHarddisks
https://manned.org/hd-idle/b6987b64
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/hdparm.8.html
Turris Omnia with OpenWrt 21.02 - Tested
Linksys WRT3200ACM with Gargoyle 1.13.x
TL-WR1043ND v2 with Gargoyle 1.10.0

http://gargoyle.romanhk.cz custom builds by gargoyle users

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