hdd acoustic management on via raid

[zuckel]

hi,

i'm trying to turn on acoustic management on a raid drive. it is an on-board via 6420 raid controller on an asus a8v deluxe with two samsung spinpoint 120gb drives.

systool will only see the raid drive and cannot read or change any settings.

does anyone have an idea how to change the am settings without breaking up the raid first?


- zuckel

[W1zzard]

i dont think you can .. not without having special support for that via chip in systool .. i'll see if i can dig up some datasheets

[zuckel]

a raid driver and also a tool that can read out raid info in win xp is included in the via hyperion pro package. dunno if the driver is any good but to make that tool run.

[INSTG8R]

Spinpoints have AAM(Auto) but I managed to turn mine on using the Hutil from the Samsung Site was a pain in the arse to be sure as Im runnin my SATA so I had to make it IDE for the Proggy to even see it but hey its worth a shot(BTW it is off by default)