On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Francois Barre wrote:
> Is it possible to make the drives turn slower ? To make the heads move slower ?
> That would be my dream. No more heat, a 10mA consumption, no more noise...
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
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