idle3ctl - disable, get or set the idle3 timer on Western Digital HDD

idle3ctl has been written by Christophe Bothamy <cbothamy at users.sf.net>.

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idle3ctl  can  disable, get and set the value of the infamous idle3 timer found on recent Western Digital
       Hard Disk Drives.  Idle3ctl can be used  as  an  alternative  to  the  official  wdidle3.exe  proprietary
       utility,  without the need to reboot in a DOS environment.  Idle3ctl is an independent project, unrelated
       in any way to Western Digital Corp.

       THISSOFTWAREISEXPERIMENTAL,NOTWELLTESTEDANDACCESSESLOWLEVELINFORMATIONOFYOURHARDDRIVE.USEATYOUROWNRISK.

idle3ctl will return zero on success and non zero on failure.

       idle3ctl - disable, get or set the idle3 timer on Western Digital HDD

       When no flags are given, -g is assumed.

       -h     Display help

       -V     Show version and exit

       -v     activate verbose output, mainly useful for debugging.

       --force
              force execution even if no Western Digital HDD are detected

       -g     get raw idle3 timer value

       -g100  get idle3 timer value as wdidle3 v1.00 would display it

       -g103  get idle3 timer value as wdidle3 v1.03 would display it

       -d     disable idle3 timer

       -s<value>
              set  idle3 timer raw value. Value must be an integer between 1 and 255.  The idle3 timer is set in
              0.1s for the 1-128 range, and in 30s for the 129-255 range.

http://idle3-tools.sourceforge.net Idle3-tools website

       http://www.wdc.com/
              Western Digital website

Version 0.9                                       January 2011                                       IDLE3CTL(8)

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