On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Francois Barre wrote: > > 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 ? Not on any of the servers with IDE drives I've just tried it with. > 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.... I think only certian drives support it though. Gordon - 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
