WD special edition and AAM

pingu666 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 16, 2003 11:29 am

isit possible to use aam proggie on these drives
i got 2 80gigs in a raid 0 that i want to quieten...
atm they holding all my data
and yes i know its a really really stupid thing todo :cry:

hopefully parents will buy me a 160gig seagate, they said they would for christmas..
one we just had :\

edcrane · **Joined:** Thu May 08, 2003 1:56 pm **Posts:** 91

I'm wondering about this as well- any ideas?

aphonos · **Posted:** Fri May 09, 2003 12:21 pm

I don't see anything in the WD specs to suggest they are, but you could download and run the Hitachi/IBM Feature Tool. It works for drives other than Hitachi/IBM. Worst case: Feature Tool not compatible with your drive.

pingu666 · **Posted:** Fri May 09, 2003 1:39 pm

ill give it a go soon as i sort out my raid :\

edcrane · **Joined:** Thu May 08, 2003 1:56 pm **Posts:** 91

ack. It's another one of those "automatic install to A:" proggies. I'd love to give this a go, but I haven't owned a floppy drive in years. Is there any img's of this utility available, or any other way for me to install this?

dukla2000 · **Posted:** Fri May 09, 2003 4:22 pm

Don't think it will be easy to use the Feature Tool without a floppy: it boots its own OS (so you would need some device, USB disk? you can bott from).

But plan B should be easier - get Disk Temp by Dalesoft - will also (try) enable AAM.

edcrane · **Joined:** Thu May 08, 2003 1:56 pm **Posts:** 91

thanks for the link. Dtemp says my WD120jb is capable of AAM, so I guess that answers that question. I couldn't figure out how to get it to enable it though. maybe this just reports properties? Are there any other aam utilities that will work in windows?

dukla2000 · **Posted:** Sat May 10, 2003 1:03 am

In disk temp when you slide to AAM you will see your drive(s) listed. Click on your drive you should get a screen with a slider. FEh is no AAM - slide to 00h for full AAM (or my Fuji only goes down to 80h - AAM is binary but the spex allowed for multiple settings), say set and you should be fine.

mudboy · **Posted:** Sat May 10, 2003 4:52 am

I've used the IBM/Hitachi Drive Fitness Tool on IBM, Seagate PATA Cuda V's, and WD SE drives with no problems. Non-IBM drives don't have access to all of the tool's features (like drive temp) but AAM does work.

YMMV, of course.

Pete

Athlon Powers · **Posted:** Sat May 10, 2003 5:41 am

pingu666 wrote:

hopefully parents will buy me a 160gig seagate, they said they would for christmas..

Man, arnt YOU a whiny highschooler. Just go out and buy it so you arnt relying on your parents for more space to store your, ahem, "media". I'm still in high school and I buy all my $200-300 hardware.

edcrane · **Joined:** Thu May 08, 2003 1:56 pm **Posts:** 91

dukla2000 wrote:

In disk temp when you slide to AAM you will see your drive(s) listed. Click on your drive you should get a screen with a slider. FEh is no AAM - slide to 00h for full AAM (or my Fuji only goes down to 80h - AAM is binary but the spex allowed for multiple settings), say set and you should be fine.

ehh. I went over this 5 times trying to figure out why I couldn't get it to work. Then I actually read the documentation... (duh):

Quote:

+ Added option to enable or disable Automatic Acoustic Management and to manage AAM levels. This option is for Win9x users with generic SmartVsd installed only !

Ahh well. I'll make a bootable cd. Sucks that there isn't any utilities that will actually run inside windows (xp).

Thanks for the help though-

aphonos · **Posted:** Sat May 10, 2003 5:57 am

Radeonman wrote:

Damn rich highschoolers. I wish I had that kind of money when I was in high school.

Wish I had it now.

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