AAM enabler that i can run in windows

BenW · Post by **BenW** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:44 am

Not got a floppy disk drive on the pc and i want to enable AAM. I know i had some software that had a slidder on it to set the AAM level but cant find it on my system and have no idea what it was

So whats out there that will run on a windows XP system?

Thanks
Ben

lenny · Post by **lenny** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 9:16 am

I can't recall offhand, but there are a few utilities I ran (mainly for monitoring HDD temperature) that allowed me to change SMART settings from Windows. dtemp might be able to do it for IDE drives - it didn't see my SATA drives.

Ackelind · Post by **Ackelind** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:26 am

You can get WinAAM here

The program is written in german, but it is really easy to use anyway. You can guess what the buttons will do, because there are only 3-4 buttons in total.

I've used that program (an earlier version of it, haven't tried this new one) with great success on my Maxtor DM9 SATA. It didn't work on my Samsung Spinpoint P120 200GB SATA though.

mircea · Post by **mircea** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:45 am

Get Hitachi's Feature Tool ISO version and write a bootable cd.

sundevil_1997 · Post by **sundevil_1997** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:56 am

mircea wrote:Get Hitachi's Feature Tool ISO version and write a bootable cd.

I used this utility, and noticed that it would only set the AAM of my Western Digital Caviar drive to either full on, or full off. But during the AAM "test", I was able to move the slider to any value. Is it normal to not be able to select anything other than 128/255?

BenW · Post by **BenW** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 3:01 pm

Ackelind wrote:You can get WinAAM here

Thanks, looks very english to me

Says my drive is already on lowest setting, thought it had it turned up to full. Ah well its fairly quiet anyway

Thanks
Ben

Ackelind · Post by **Ackelind** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:33 am

BenW wrote:
Ackelind wrote:You can get WinAAM here
Thanks, looks very english to me

Says my drive is already on lowest setting, thought it had it turned up to full. Ah well its fairly quiet anyway

Thanks
Ben

Ah. I guess they've translated it to english in the latest version then

xxkrnxstylezxx · Post by **xxkrnxstylezxx** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 8:24 pm

Would this work with a Seagate 250GB 7200.8 IDE drive?

I've got a Seagate 200GB 7200.7 IDE and it's saying I don't have an ATA drive with "Acoustic Management".

jojo4u · Post by **jojo4u** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 4:18 am

xxkrnxstylezxx wrote: I've got a Seagate 200GB 7200.7 IDE and it's saying I don't have an ATA drive with "Acoustic Management".

Do a google search.

BenW · Post by **BenW** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 5:27 am

I dont think seagates have AAM

xxkrnxstylezxx · Post by **xxkrnxstylezxx** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 11:02 am

Yeah, I noticed that after I posted...

peterson · Post by **peterson** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 4:43 am

What is AAM? I ran the application and it gave me 2 choices for my Maxtor (IDE). 128 and 192 (i think) as opposed to the standard 254.
I thought the HDD stopped. I can't hear it.

And i did it while downloading files. So i did notice a huge difference.

Post by **Ralf Hutter** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 5:05 am

peterson wrote:What is AAM?

That question has been asked and answered dozens and dozens of times. If you use the search function to look for "AAM" you'll get 411 hits. I'll double-dog gar-run-tee you that at least one of them will explain what AAM is.

peterson · Post by **peterson** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 5:11 am

Ok, sorry. I used the search function and found this topic. But then i just forgot to continue searching.