Seagate Barracuda V 120GB SATA : SMART and AAM.
NutsMammoth
My hard disk works very well but heads are noisy. The Acoustic
Management is certainly in Performance mode, and I want to set it to
Quiet mode.
But I cannot access to SMART and AAM functions !
My mobo is an Asus P4PE-SRL (i845PE chipset) with RAID/SATA Promise
Fast Trak 276 controller and 2 SATA connectors.
In the PDF document of my hard disk, there are an ATA commands list
with AAM support. So this hard disk is fully SMART compatible with AAM
support.
Utilities from Seagate (like Seatools) not compatible with my HDD
controller (already contacted their tech support), and Promise and
Asus cannot help me (already contacted them too).
Intel Chipset Accelerator software and IBM/Hitachi, Maxtor DOS
utilities only ATA compatibles. Latest version of Active SMART not
supported by RAID/SATA controllers (only ATA and SCSI).
I have tried to plug my HDD on an ATA connector using the Abit
Serillel adapter, but it works only with an ATA HDD->SATA, not SATA
HDD->ATA. The adapter is not bi-directionnal.
I'm looking for a tip to access to SMART commands of my hard disk. I'm
looking for an utility... help!
Thanks
Best Regards.
NutsMammoth
Modified drivers and bios for integrated RAID/SATA controllers
(Promise, HighPoint...) are available. If you have interested...
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Folkert Rienstra
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NutsMammoth
utility from SANTools, now I can check the AAM settings of my SATA
HDD. The AAM value is set to 0. So this is the confirmation that the
AAM is disable.
But with a SMART utility, I can only check settings, no modify them.
It is incredible that manufacturers sells new SATA HDD without tools
to configure them (and Promise, the manufacturer of my FastTrak376
RAID/SATA controller, too). And the mobo manufacturer (Asus) cannot
help me. I have already contacted the tech support of Seagate and the
reply is "no tools".
Well... I have to wait...
Err... who is Svend ? :-)
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Svend Olaf Mikkelsen
>Well I have tried these modified drivers (under WinXP) and using SMART
>utility from SANTools, now I can check the AAM settings of my SATA
>HDD. The AAM value is set to 0. So this is the confirmation that the
>AAM is disable.
>
>But with a SMART utility, I can only check settings, no modify them.
>
>It is incredible that manufacturers sells new SATA HDD without tools
>to configure them (and Promise, the manufacturer of my FastTrak376
>RAID/SATA controller, too). And the mobo manufacturer (Asus) cannot
>help me. I have already contacted the tech support of Seagate and the
>reply is "no tools".
>
>Well... I have to wait...
>
>Err... who is Svend ? :-)
It may be me. But I do not really know what SATA is, and why it would
be different to access than an ATA disk. If it is different, it would
be difficult to make a tool without having access to a SATA disk.
Does Hitachi have a SATA disk? Then I would expect them to be the
first to provide a version of Feature Tool for this.
--
Svend Olaf
Pedro Albondiga
I'm having the exact same problem with the same HDD ('cuda V 120G
SATA). I'm using the Intel D845PEBT2 (same chipset but Sil 3112A
controller for SATA) and with no better luck. Please let us all know
if you find a solution.
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Folkert Rienstra
In news:3e9c8a3d...@dtext.news.tele.dk, Svend Olaf Mikkelsen <svo...@inet.uni2.dk> wrote:
> On 15 Apr 2003 00:32:25 -0700, oy...@yahoo.com (NutsMammoth) wrote:
>
> > Well I have tried these modified drivers (under WinXP) and using SMART
> > utility from SANTools, now I can check the AAM settings of my SATA
> > HDD. The AAM value is set to 0. So this is the confirmation that the
> > AAM is disable.
> >
> > But with a SMART utility, I can only check settings, no modify them.
> >
> > It is incredible that manufacturers sells new SATA HDD without tools
> > to configure them (and Promise, the manufacturer of my FastTrak376
> > RAID/SATA controller, too). And the mobo manufacturer (Asus) cannot
> > help me. I have already contacted the tech support of Seagate and the
> > reply is "no tools".
> >
> > Well... I have to wait...
> >
> > Err... who is Svend ? :-)
>
> It may be me. But I do not really know what SATA is, and why it would
> be different to access than an ATA disk.
That's why I recommended you. You usually don't care what the chipset is where
as the manufacturers utilities usually only work with a few known chipsets.
> If it is different, it would
> be difficult to make a tool without having access to a SATA disk.
>
> Does Hitachi have a SATA disk? Then I would expect them to be the
> first to provide a version of Feature Tool for this.
IF they continue the IBM policy. That may not happen.
Pedro Albondiga
doesn't support acoustic management."
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Svend Olaf Mikkelsen
wrote:
>ARRGH! I just got an email from Seagate Tech Support: "This drive
>doesn't support acoustic management."
The "cuda7200" SATA documentation says:
05 H Enable advanced power management
55 H Disable read look-ahead (read cache) feature.
82 H Disable write cache
The "cuda5" SATA documentation says:
05 H Enable advanced power management
42 H Auto acoustic management
FE H Performance seek
80 H Quiet acoustic seek
55 H Disable read look-ahead (read cache) feature.
82 H Disable write cache
Indicating that there can be a difference between the two SATA models.
--
Svend Olaf
NutsMammoth
Barracuda V SATA family.
Introduction of the manual: "This manual describes the functional,
mechanical and interface specifications for ST3120023AS, ST380023AS,
and ST360015AS serial ATA interface drives.".
In section 2.0, Drive specifications: Drive acoutics Sound power
(bels), Idle, Quiet seek and Performance seek.
Well now go to Section 4.0 (Serial ATA (SATA) interface, sub-section
4.2 about supported ATA commands.
In 4.2.2, Set Features command : Auto acoustic management -> can set
in Performace seek or Quiet acoustic seek.
Here the link to download the manual :
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/manuals/sata/cuda5_sata_pm.pdf
So ? :-) This HDD is fully SMART commands compatible with AAM support.
There are no tools yet, to set the AAM on Seagate SATA HDD (That the
answer of the tech support of Seagate, when I have contacted them. We
had a different answer !!??).
Actualy, there are no tools which can send SMART commands to an HDD
connected on RAID/SATA controllers (Promise, Silicon Image...). That
the issue ! This is a software and not a hardware issue.
RAID/SATA controllers manufacturers must works with HDD manufacturers,
with SMART software companies, to create SMART tools to manage SATA
features.
SATA is going to replace ATA, so tools must be created !
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Eric Gisin
| Barracuda V SATA family.
|
|
| So ? :-) This HDD is fully SMART commands compatible with AAM support.
|
| There are no tools yet, to set the AAM on Seagate SATA HDD (That the
| answer of the tech support of Seagate, when I have contacted them. We
| had a different answer !!??).
|
| Actualy, there are no tools which can send SMART commands to an HDD
| connected on RAID/SATA controllers (Promise, Silicon Image...). That
| the issue ! This is a software and not a hardware issue.
|
| RAID/SATA controllers manufacturers must works with HDD manufacturers,
| with SMART software companies, to create SMART tools to manage SATA
| features.
|
compatible with a standard IDE controller. Then any disk utility would work as
expected.
There is a ATA pass-through ioctl introduced in NT4 that does SMART and any
other low-level configuration. If that is implemented in the driver any Win32
utility should work.
Intel did even better with the ICH5, sATA programming is register compatible
with ATA, so even DOS utilities should work.