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I'm building a new P4 2.8C system this month, and had planned to purchase the 'Cuda V PATA 120GB w/ 8MB cache (ST3120024A). I've read about the AAM lawsuit and how it's not enabled w/ the new SATA and 7200.7 drives. Even though some posts here indicated that AAM was enabled on the PATA versions (in particular the ST3120024A), I was worried. I wrote Seagate (text below), who replied that the drive does not support AAM. Can anyone who's purchased a ST3120024A _recently_ refute this? Thanks!

Hoping for a quiet HD,
silent_bob

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Hello,

This drive does not support acoustic management. There are also no
utilities available from Seagate to manage the acoustics on this drive
family.

Danny M.
Seagate Technical Support

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ST3120024A has AAM enabled?

Dear Seagate,

I've read a great deal lately about how the new 7200.7 and Barracuda V
SATA's
are shipping with AAM disabled. Can the 120GB 8MB cache PATA Barracuda V
(ST3120024A) do AAM?
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thanks for the quick response! Two more questions--did enabling AAM do much, and where can I find the Hitachi tool?

I just got a ST3120024a and despite a weird issue in XP I was able to run seeam.exe no problem and it's now set to quiet. My current system is far too loud for it to really make a difference, I just splurged as I needed more storage before I build a silent system.

silent_bob wrote:I've read about the AAM lawsuit

Does anyone have any links to info on this lawsuit? I wasn't able to find anything on it.

Justin_R wrote:

silent_bob wrote:I've read about the AAM lawsuit

Does anyone have any links to info on this lawsuit? I wasn't able to find anything on it.

http://www.convolve.com/pr2000-7-12a.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/11943.html
http://www.computerworld.com/softwareto ... 91,00.html

Copied the links from WARNING - no 'quiet seek' for Barracuda V SATA! thread.

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Curious as to what you mean by that?

the ibm/hitachi drives do have this contested technology and continue to use it? if compaq and seagate were told to stop, who's still using it?

Cheers!
-Liq

didnt think compaq made drives