Acoustic Management adjusts the speed of the head seeks, reducing the ambient sound level during normal operation. This does not affect sound levels for power on operations. Drive performance can be affected when Acoustic Management is enabled.
The following drives contain acoustic management:
-DiamondMax Plus 40 UDMA/100
-DiamondMax 60 UDMA/100
-DiamondMax VL 30 UDMA/100
-D540X
-D740X
-Fireball 3
-DiamondMax 8 and 16
-DiamondMax Plus 9
The AMSET utility (AMSET.EXE) can turn Acoustic Management off, or on (two on levels). The command flags (DOS-Based, command line switches) are:
/off - Turns Acoustic Management off, the drive operates at normal acoustic levels
/quiet - Quietest seeks, the speed of the seek operation is reduced to its lowest level to provide the quietest operations, this level has the most impact on drive performance.
/fast - Fastest seeks, the speed of the seek operation is reduced to provide quieter operation with the least amount of impact on the drive performance.
AMSET will run in a command prompt window on your PC. If not then you will need to run it from DOS at boot up by using a 3.5 floppy disk.
This is the link to download the program.
http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/maxtor_EULA.phph?setacm.exe
The following drives contain acoustic management:
-DiamondMax Plus 40 UDMA/100
-DiamondMax 60 UDMA/100
-DiamondMax VL 30 UDMA/100
-D540X
-D740X
-Fireball 3
-DiamondMax 8 and 16
-DiamondMax Plus 9
The AMSET utility (AMSET.EXE) can turn Acoustic Management off, or on (two on levels). The command flags (DOS-Based, command line switches) are:
/off - Turns Acoustic Management off, the drive operates at normal acoustic levels
/quiet - Quietest seeks, the speed of the seek operation is reduced to its lowest level to provide the quietest operations, this level has the most impact on drive performance.
/fast - Fastest seeks, the speed of the seek operation is reduced to provide quieter operation with the least amount of impact on the drive performance.
AMSET will run in a command prompt window on your PC. If not then you will need to run it from DOS at boot up by using a 3.5 floppy disk.
This is the link to download the program.
http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/maxtor_EULA.phph?setacm.exe
