"Thanks for the freedos iso, I have just spent hours trying to create a dos boot disk in mac os x, about to give up, your iso worked perfectly."

"Here are my findings with absolute instructions on how you can create a USB DOS bootable stick, with "Wdidle3" on it. It's fairly simple with pictures and all."

"Using wdidle3 /D had an unacceptable side effect. It caused the drives to slow down very dramatically, perhaps by a factor of 25x or so. In other words, the four drives that I'm using in a soft raid5 array went from an aggregate transfer rate of 40-50MB/sec to about 2MB/sec. Using wdidle3 /S300 did not have such a side effect; this was a suggested value I found via Google for a major NAS technology provider."

Good, no-nonsense set of instructions on how to use wdidle3.

wdspinup — I got NO IDEA what this does

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