From: Francois Barre <francois.barre@gmail.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: multiple Sata SATAII 150, TX4 - how to tell which drive is which?headaches galore!
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:21:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fd8d0180601240921l7ed29964n@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0601241716070.20760@lion.drogon.net>
> Some drives do support quiet vs. performance modes.
>
> hdparm will set this for you, however, from the hdparm manual page:
>
> -M Get/set Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) setting. Most modern
> harddisk drives have the ability to speed down the head move-
> ments to reduce their noise output. The possible values are
> between 0 and 254. 128 is the most quiet (and therefore slowest)
> setting and 254 the fastest (and loudest). Some drives have only
> two levels (quiet / fast), while others may have different lev-
> els between 128 and 254. THIS FEATURE IS EXPERIMENTAL AND NOT
> WELL TESTED. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Gordon
>
Did it ever work for you ?
I may be unlucky, but I never seen this work for any of my drives.
Or maybe my ears are always polluted, and I hear the heads move even
in my dreams :-p....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-24 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-24 6:30 multiple Sata SATAII 150, TX4 - how to tell which drive is which?headaches galore! Mitchell Laks
2006-01-24 12:53 ` David Greaves
2006-01-24 16:10 ` Shawn Usry
2006-01-24 17:02 ` David Greaves
2006-01-24 17:12 ` Francois Barre
2006-01-24 17:18 ` Gordon Henderson
2006-01-24 17:21 ` Francois Barre [this message]
2006-01-24 17:32 ` Gordon Henderson
2006-01-24 22:56 ` John Hendrikx
2006-01-25 5:51 ` Mattias Wadenstein
2006-01-25 8:33 ` Hans Kristian Rosbach
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-23 8:36 multiple Sata SATAII 150, TX4 - how to tell which drive is which? headaches galore! Mitchell Laks
2006-01-23 12:20 ` PFC
2006-01-23 20:22 ` John Hendrikx
2006-01-23 20:44 ` Shawn Usry
2006-01-23 20:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-01-23 20:53 ` John Hendrikx
2006-01-24 9:54 ` PFC
2006-01-24 14:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-01-23 16:27 ` Shawn Usry
2006-01-23 17:41 ` Shawn Usry
2006-01-24 2:46 ` multiple Sata SATAII 150, TX4 - how to tell which drive is which?headaches galore! Shawn Usry
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