Not necessarily the best or most ideal solution for now, but you could run some small script in background, that will touch
some file on the hard disk maybe once every 1-2 minutes.
This should keep the powersaving function from kicking in. Make sure to monitor the drive's temperature, but I don't think that should be a problem.
If you really don't have any way to access a real Windows PC, I'd suggest you install a virtual machine (such as VirtualBox).
You're able to download ready-to-run images of Windows installations right from Microsoft. Make sure to pick Linux and the Virtual machine you'd like to use. These images are provided for testing and evaluation purposes. You don't have to worry about buying a license key or anything.
In case of Virtual Box, you should be able to use the USB2 pass-through to directly install the Windows tools from Buffalo inside the virtual machine and use those to adjust the drive settings.
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. On this page It gives several options but none of them seem related to what I'm trying to do.software
. I don't know where you're getting this idea from. I have no tools available for this hard drive other than things like the "Ramdisk Utility" and other useless pieces of software that probably wouldn't work on linux anyways. So when you say that "the software is ... changing parameters on the driver/controller" it's axiomatically impossible.