Question: I have a Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200rpm hard drive with unbearable seek noise! See Quiet Hard Drive suggestions.
I have replaced the drive now, but don’t want it to go to waste. Does anyone know how to enable AAM (Automatic Acoustic Management) on Western Digital Drives?
I have an Asus P5QL-Pro motherboard, and have so far had no luck with Hitachi FTool (Feature Tool). any help would be greatly appreciated.
Answer: A thread at Hexus here, describes another user’s identical problem, and several possible solutions. ?The final “stop-gap” solution that worked for that user was using the Windows version of hdparm and setting up a batch file to run at startup, since the settings got erased at restart.