I have an Ultrastar DC HC550 model WUH721818ALE6L4 smartmon tools work and I am getting 193 Load_Cycle_Count 32213 so I think that the stand-by timer is active https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/product/data-center-drives/ultrastar-dc-hc500-series/product-manual-ultrastar-dc-hc550-sata-oem-spec.pdf on page 66 gives some info about the standby timer "If the value of SECTOR COUNT Register on Idle command or Standby command is set to 00h,...
I have an Ultrastar DC HC550 model WUH721818ALE6L4 smartmon tools work and I am getting 193 Load_Cycle_Count 32213 so I think that the stand-by timer is active file:///home/zorik/Downloads/product-manual-ultrastar-dc-hc550-sata-oem-spec.pdf on page 66 gives some info about the standby timer "If the value of SECTOR COUNT Register on Idle command or Standby command is set to 00h, the standby timer is disabled" but idle3ctl cannot read/set the timer I get sg16(VSC_ENABLE) failed: Invalid exchange Is...
Exactly the same problem with my two WDC WD181KFGX ~ # idle3ctl -v /dev/sdd Checking if Drive is a Western Digital Drive outgoing cdb: 85 08 2e 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 ec 00 data: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 SG_IO: ATA_16 status=0x2, host_status=0x0, driver_status=0x8 SG_IO: sb[]: 72 01 00 1d 00 00 00 0e 09 0c 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 SG_IO: desc[]: 09 0c 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ATA_16 stat=50 err=00 nsect=01 lbal=00 lbam=00...
sg16(VSC_SENDKEY) failed: Invalid exchange
Support for newer (large WD Models)
what if you set your SATA port as IDE in the BIOS? And seems like this is a known problem : https://sourceforge.net/p/hdparm/support-requests/6/
My disk: WD10SPZX When i try to get value or disable timer i get this: Checking if this is a Western Digital Hard Disk outgoing cdb: 85 08 2e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 ec 00 data: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 SG_IO: ATA_16 status=0x2, host_status=0x0, driver_status=0x8 SG_IO: sb[]: 72 01 00 1d 00 00 00 0e 09 0c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 SG_IO: desc[]: 09 0c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ATA_16 stat=50 err=00 nsect=00 lbal=00 lbam=00...
I attached a patch with the changes I made, in case someone else wants to try to fix this.
It turns out that this did not actually fix the problem. The command succeeded but the value did not change after power cycling the drive.
I ran into this error with my My Book, which has a WD40EZRZ-22GXCB0 connected over a USB-SATA adapter. I was able to fix this by pulling in the latest version of sgio.c/h from hdparm, which has better support for this drive. There were a few minor changes required and I had to pull in a few other files from hdparm to get it compile. I'm not sure if this would fix OP's problem, but it worked for me.
Model Family: Western Digital Blue Device Model: WDC WD40EZRZ-00GXCB0 works fine. default was 0x50
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