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Description:

Idle3-tools provides a utility, that can disable, get and set the value of the infamous idle3 timer, found on recent Western Digital Hard Disk Drives. It can be used as an alternative to the official wdidle3.exe proprietary utility, without the need to reboot into a DOS environement. A full power up cycle of the drive will be still mandatory, for new settings to be taken into account.

Homepage:

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

License:

GPL-3+

Versions

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Description

• Idle3-tools provides a utility, that can disable, get and set the value of the infamous idle3 timer, found on recent Western Digital Hard Disk Drives. It can be used as an alternative to the official wdidle3.exe proprietary utility, without the need to reboot into a DOS environement. A full power up cycle of the drive will be still mandatory, for new settings to be taken into account.

Maintainers

• Conrad Kostecki (conikost@gentoo.org) - Type: person

Upstream

• Bugs: https://sourceforge.net/p/idle3-tools/bugs/
• Remote IDs:
  • sourceforge: idle3-tools

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	<maintainer type="person">
		<email>conikost@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Conrad Kostecki</name>
	</maintainer>
	<longdescription>
		Idle3-tools provides a utility, that can disable, get and set the value
		of the infamous idle3 timer, found on recent Western Digital Hard Disk Drives.
		It can be used as an alternative to the official wdidle3.exe proprietary utility,
		without the need to reboot into a DOS environement. A full power up cycle of the
		drive will be still mandatory, for new settings to be taken into account.
	</longdescription>
	<upstream>
		<bugs-to>https://sourceforge.net/p/idle3-tools/bugs/</bugs-to>
		<remote-id type="sourceforge">idle3-tools</remote-id>
	</upstream>
</pkgmetadata>

Lint Warnings

• [Warning] Missing md5-cache for version 0.9.3_pre20120123-r2. Run 'ebuild <ebuild_file> manifest' or 'egencache' to generate it.

Files

• makefile.patch

Manifest