> 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.... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
