Currently Maxtor have AAM enabled but the value on Top Performance so don't worry to much if you have all maxtor Drives scoring between 9 to 7 ms Seek time.
Ok heres the guide
Firstly Download ATA AC ( ATA Acoustic ) ( 3kb )
IF you have a floppy drive then just make a dos bootdisk and put ataac.exe on it. reboot from the disk and run the program.
If you don't have a floppy drive ( Like Me ) then get a windows 98 bootable cd-rom or something. run Nero or some other burning app and burn ataac on a cd-rw ( so you don't waste a cd-r on something like this ) and some other big file.. 30 meg is fine, you need to do this to make the cd's image at-least bigger than 20 meg or you might run into problems. I have burnt a mere 8 meg cd and almost every cd-rom i put it in wont read the cd.
find-out where your Hard Disks are connected ( Just running ataac without any variables will display this ) and then type something like this... ( you can lookup the readme )
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ATA-AC requires DOS, it won't run in a Windows DOS-Box.
Options:
p0=VALUE sets AAM of device 0 (master) on primary adapter to VALUE
p1=VALUE sets AAM of device 1 (slave) on primary adapter to VALUE
s0=VALUE sets AAM of device 0 (master) on secondary adapter to VALUE
s1=VALUE sets AAM of device 1 (slave) on secondary adapter to VALUE
VALUE: May be a decimal from 128 to 254 or the string 'off'
Example: ataac p0=254 p1=off
This input sets the AAM feature of the master drive connected to
the primary EIDE adapter to 254 and deactivates the AAM of the slave
drive connected to the primary EIDE adapter (if it supports this).
Options:
p0=VALUE sets AAM of device 0 (master) on primary adapter to VALUE
p1=VALUE sets AAM of device 1 (slave) on primary adapter to VALUE
s0=VALUE sets AAM of device 0 (master) on secondary adapter to VALUE
s1=VALUE sets AAM of device 1 (slave) on secondary adapter to VALUE
VALUE: May be a decimal from 128 to 254 or the string 'off'
Example: ataac p0=254 p1=off
This input sets the AAM feature of the master drive connected to
the primary EIDE adapter to 254 and deactivates the AAM of the slave
drive connected to the primary EIDE adapter (if it supports this).
Good Luck and I hope you enjoy your Faster hard Disks
Any Mods wanna make this guide sticky for a while
?Unkown Forum Catagory, MSFN has no HardWare Specific Forum. :/
