[object Object] AT THIS PAGE" My cloud won't sleep - #14 by Alastair_Gordon THERE IS A ‘SOLUTION’ TO GET THE DRIVE TO SLEEP, HOWEVER, IT OFFERS INFO 100% DEPENDANT ON SOME LINK , THAT LEADS TO NOWHERE! "So here is the variation on Banned’s excellent method to end disk thrashing adapted for the W…

Oh no after a day of figuring out what to do, there is nothing at the link provided!

cpt_paranoia December 28, 2015, 1:47am 3

This FAQ page used to be sticky, but , in their wisdom, WD decided not to make it sticky again after a recent forum replacement.

It contains what i’d suggest is the definitive guide to disabling the wdmcserverd etc functions:

/etc/init.d/wdmcserverd stop
/etc/init.d/wdphotodbmergerd stop
# to keep it from restarting after a reboot 
update-rc.d wdphotodbmergerd disable
update-rc.d wdmcserverd disable

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Oh no after a day of figuring out what to do, there is nothing at the link provided!

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