Cheers Mark, that reassures me somewhat. I guess the delivery services in Belgium aren't (yet?) as bad as in the US. smile

Originally Posted By: mlord
Oh, and same deal with the WD "Idle3" timer: the factory default is still 8-seconds on the new 3TB versions. I recommend using the WDIDLE3.EXE utility to change it to 30 seconds. Or if you just cannot boot MS-DOS to do that, then the latest version of my Linux hdparm program also now has a flag to change the timer setting.
Cheers

I remembered to do that. No problem whatsoever with the WDIDLE3.EXE utility. Now happily spinning around with a 30 seconds timer. smile

Cheers!
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