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The utility works on and makes changes to all compatible Western Digital hard disk drives connected to the computer. It is important to remember that any change will affect all the hard drives. If you only wish to change specific hard drives on your computer then you should disconnect the other hard drives before you use this utility, then reconnect them after you are finished.
The utility comes with three batch files, {{Mono|TLERSCAN.BAT}} to get the current state of the TLER setting on all the hard drives, {{Mono|TLER-ON.BAT}} to enable TLER, and {{Mono|TLER-OFF.BAT}} to disable TLER. The included {{Mono|TLER-ON.BAT}} will set the Read & Write TLER time to seven seconds. If you wish to use a custom timeout value, you can use the {{Mono|WDTLER.EXE}} utility directly with the <code>-r# -w#</code> parameters to specify how many seconds the Time Limit value should be.
Western Digital claims that using the {{Mono|WDTLER.EXE}} utility on newer drives can damage the firmware and make the disk unusable. The utility is no longer available from Western Digital, and new dtives will not be able to have the TLER setting changed. RE disks are only suitable for RAID arrays and Caviar are only suitable for non-RAID use. The utility still works for older drives.
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