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wd_keepalive - coreflake - 19th Aug, 2013 02:02 AM
Hey !
Does anyone know how tot start the wd_keepalive service in xbian beta 1.1 ? I can't seem to get it started.
Thanks !
RE: wd_keepalive - IriDium - 19th Aug, 2013 02:10 AM
wd_keepalive is a watchdog service and has NOTHING to do with Western Digital drives if that is what you are trying to achieve?
It probably best not to muck around with services unless you know what you are doing :-)
RE: wd_keepalive - coreflake - 19th Aug, 2013 02:36 AM
Testing image, no problem. So it's not to prevent hdd spindown ?
RE: wd_keepalive - IriDium - 19th Aug, 2013 02:43 AM
(19th Aug, 2013 02:36 AM)coreflake Wrote: Testing image, no problem. So it's not to prevent hdd spindown ?As mentioned before it has nothing to do with HDD.
Please keep your questions to the original thread.
http://forum.xbian.org/thread-1246.html
RE: wd_keepalive - mk01 - 19th Aug, 2013 08:43 PM
(19th Aug, 2013 02:36 AM)coreflake Wrote: Testing image, no problem. So it's not to prevent hdd spindown ?
put "nohdparm" into /boot/cmdline.txt. at the end of the existing line.