VLC player always skips and sometimes crashes if pausing >8 seconds during movie playback.
Is there any way to change this setting/behaviour permanently?
Wdidle3 doesn’t seem to have any effect, all settings /Sxxx /D (although appearing to be accepted) seem to be completely ignored by this hdd.
Disabling APM in Crystaldiskinfo seems to be able to stop the spindown (after approx. 8 sec. of inactivity), but this needs to be repeated after every powercycle.
and install it. under Function → Advanced Features → AAM / APM control you will see what is going on with the disk and can enable disapbl apm there. The problem with this is that when you shutdown the WD disk goes back to original state.
and install it. under Function → Advanced Features → AAM / APM control you will see what is going on with the disk and can enable disapbl apm there. If you change the APM from here, it will reset to the default when you power cycle the computer.