How does one set AAM status on WD drives?

floepie · Post by **floepie** » Thu May 08, 2008 8:44 pm

According to WD's support pages, the only way to change the AAM settings is with a very outdated Intel tool called Intel Application Accelerator that apparently only works with pre-9-series chipsets. Is there some other 3rd party tool which people are using to configure AAM?

Post by **MikeC** » Thu May 08, 2008 9:07 pm

Use Hitachi's Feature Tool -- download from Hitachi.

Elvellon · Post by **Elvellon** » Fri May 09, 2008 6:25 am

HDTune Pro seems to do it from Windows, though somewhat erratically on my GP (have to double-check random access times) which seems to be stock lowest AAM anyway.

floepie · Post by **floepie** » Fri May 23, 2008 11:47 am

It seems Hitachi's Tool is only geared for drives on an IDE channel unfortunately.

loimlo · Post by **loimlo** » Sat May 24, 2008 10:31 am

It looks like Hitachi Feature Tool didn't recognize your SATA controller. What SATA controller did you use to connect WD? I've had changed AAM settings through nForce4 SATA controller without a problem by Hitachi Feature Tool. My suggestion is that Install your WD to other controller(mainboard).

Vicotnik · Post by **Vicotnik** » Sat May 24, 2008 1:13 pm

Like loimlo suggests, try connecting the HDD to another controller. Also, in my experience sometimes it helps if no other HDD is connected at the same time.