Information about the package, idle3-tools, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The idle3-tools package is designed for, Manipulate the value of the idle3 timer found on recent WD Hard.
Package Name:
idle3-tools
Summary:
Manipulate the value of the idle3 timer found on recent WD Hard
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.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.9.1
Release:
1.el6
Size:
25 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3
Control the idle3-tools package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install idle3-tools
This command will install idle3-tools on the server.
yum remove idle3-tools
This command will un-install idle3-tools on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove idle3-tools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove idle3-tools
This command will un-install idle3-tools on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove idle3-tools when using the -y flag.
yum update idle3-tools
This command will update idle3-tools to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove idle3-tools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update idle3-tools
This command will update idle3-tools to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove idle3-tools when using the -y flag.
yum info idle3-tools
This command will show you core information about the idle3-tools package.
yum deplist idle3-tools
This command will show you the dependencies for idle3-tools. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update idle3-tools
This command will check if there is an update waiting on idle3-tools. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.