setting aam on maxtor diamond max 10?

zardoz · Post by **zardoz** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:30 pm

hi,

i have a diamond max 10 300 gig sata drive and i wish to set aam to quieten it down a bit. i have tried ftool but it keeps on hanging, Dr hardwares aamtool doesnt pick the drive up and maxtors amset (havent tried) but says it isnt compatable?

any help would be appreciated.

subman · Post by **subman** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:43 pm

I have two DM9 and one Maxline 11 drives and I use AMSET to set AAM. The 2 DM9 SATA drives do not get recognised by AMSET till I go into the BIOS and change the setting from Enhanced to Compatible Mode on my ASUS P4C800ED board.

zardoz · Post by **zardoz** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:52 am

hi,
i have had a look but cant seem to find anything resembling what you mention, what setting exactly am i looking for?

my dm10 is a sata drive if this has any relavance i do not know?

my mobo is a msi k8n neo socket 754 the bios is phoenix if that helps?

thanks for the reply.

halcyon · Post by **halcyon** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 2:56 am

AAM can be set off according to this:
http://forums.storagereview.net/index.p ... t&p=197678

Maxtor's AMSET - Acoustic Management Utility:
http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxt ... setacm.exe

NB! I haven't tested it myself.

Do report whether you get it to work.

zardoz · Post by **zardoz** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:04 am

well i have tried amset amd ftool now on two motherboards and the dm10 with no joy, both will set an older dm9 but not the dm10! i have also asked maxtor and after a while of beating around the bush (suggesting a buy a quiet drive enclosure)? i got this reply...

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my question.

can you set aam on the maxtor d10 sata 300 gigs?
yes or no?
if yes can you recomend a third party software app?

i have tried numerous tools and none of them can set aam on the maxtor dm10!

reply.

No, also we do not recommend third party software.
Sorry we cannot help you with this issue.
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i am still confused as their are a number of people saying they have set aam on the dm10. is it just the sata models you cant set aam on???

can anyone shed some light on this problem?

madman2003 · Post by **madman2003** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:39 am

You could try the utility in this topic: http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=19656

Chang · Post by **Chang** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:33 am

FWIW, I noticed an option to change AAM in the newest version of ATITool.

scotty6435 · Post by **scotty6435** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:21 pm

The Hitachi hard disk utility is very good.