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From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
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Subject: Re: Acoustic management for ATA Harddisks?
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Ewald Jenisch wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Is there a way to turn on acoustic management for ATA harddisks?
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>  
>
Hitachi Feature Tool comes as a bootable floppy as has done this for 
every hard disk I've owned (which is only a handful, but includes, 
Hitachi, Samsung, IBM and Maxtor).  Google will find it for you.

There have also been posts this week about a bootable CD which contains 
every useful tool under the sun (and a few useless ones, no doubt) which 
I think contained this, as well as various other manufacturers' disk 
tools: http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/

--Alex