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Yes, to what Eric said, as AAM is "sticky" and stays
set or cleared over power cycles.

Garfield

On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 22:27:06 -0500, "Eric Gross" <ecg5@po.cwru.edu>
wrote:

>The utility doesn't seem to work with any IDE controllers that aren't built
>into the southbridge of the chipset (that I've tried at least). The simplest
>workaround is to just temporarily connect your hard drive to your onboard
>IDE controller and run the utility, then move the cable back to the other
>IDE controller.
>
>-Eric Gross
>
>"Richard Hayden" <rahaydenuk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:9tr7d1$hmd$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am running Windows XP with a Promise IDE TX2 UDMA100 controller card
>> connected to a 60Gb Maxtor 7200RPM UDMA 100 DiamondMax Plus 60 hard disc.
>>
>> I am trying to use Maxtor's AMSET (Acoustic Management) utility to
>increase
>> the speed of my HDD's seeks (at the expense of louder seeks). To do this
>you
>> need to boot into DOS from a boot disk (I created one using the Windows XP
>> format utility), as the AMSET application will not run in a Windows
>> environment and must be run from pure DOS. The AMSET utility was also put
>on
>> to the floppy disk. After successfully booting to the A:\ prompt, I
>> attempted to run the utility. The first thing it does is to search your
>> primary and secondary motherboard IDE controllers for Maxtor HDDs. It
>found
>> none, which was expected as I have no HDDs on the mobo controllers. It was
>> then (according to the documentation) supposed to check any attached
>> controller cards for Maxtor HDDs, but it acted as if I don't have a
>> controller card connected and skipped that stage. It then quitted because
>it
>> thought that there were no Maxtor hard disks installed on my machine. All
>of
>> my partitions are NTFS, but this should have no effect as this utility
>does
>> not need to access partitions, it just changes a low-level setting in the
>> hard disk itself.
>>
>> The Promise controller card says that it is searching and has successfully
>> found my Maxtor hard disk on system boot, and Windows XP loads
>successfully
>> off of it. I have had no other problems with this drive or my system as a
>> whole.
>>
>> For more information on this AMSET utility, please visit this URL:
>>
>http://www.maxtor.com/products/diamondmax/techsupport/technicalprocedures/21
>> 007.html
>>
>> I'm extremely confused and annoyed as to why this utility doesn't detect
>my
>> Maxtor disk, although the above page does say that some controller cards
>are
>> not yet supported, but I would have thought my one would be as it is quite
>> popular.
>>
>> I would be extremely grateful for any help/advice,
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Richard Hayden.
>>
>>
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