Description:

Idle3-tools provides a Linux/Unix 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
in a DOS environement. A power off/on cycle of the drive will still be
mandatory for new settings to be taken into account.

Idle3-tools is an independant project, unrelated in any way to Western
Digital Corp.

WARNING: THIS SOFTWARE IS EXPERIMENTAL AND NOT WELL TESTED. IT
ACCESSES LOW LEVEL INFORMATION OF YOUR HARDDRIVE. USE AT YOUR OWN
RISK.