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mthao00

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Aug 24, 2007
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Are there programs similar to Hitach's Feature Tool for Macs? or HDDLife?

I just want something to control the acoustics of the Hitachi 7k200 HD. It's getting pretty annoying. I can hear the drive from three fee away.

Thanks, mT :apple:
 
Are there programs similar to Hitach's Feature Tool for Macs? or HDDLife?

I just want something to control the acoustics of the Hitachi 7k200 HD. It's getting pretty annoying. I can hear the drive from three fee away.

Thanks, mT :apple:

Anyone found a tool for this?

I bought a samsung and it makes a lot more noise than the orginal hitachi harddrive.

Thanks
 
Bump :)

I'm trying to figure out how to use this so that I can force my 1TB internal HDD to run at SATA2 instead of SATA3 (hopefully that way it'll stop causing drama).

I've been able to access the tool in 2 ways:
1) ran Parallels Desktop, set Hitachi Feature Tool.img file as a floppy image, booted from this floppy image --> WORKS, however, it can't see any of my HDDs... why not?

2) burned the Feature Tool.iso to a CD and boot from that CD at startup. Works too but since it's DOS and doens't have any mac keyboard drivers, I can't navigate!

Anyone know how to either:
1) get the tool to see my SATA hdds using parallels when booting from an image? or
2) boot to the tool from a CD with keyboard drivers on a mac?


At the moment my setup is:
SSD in main
HDD in opti

P.S. you can get the tool from here: http://www.hgst.com/support/index-fi...ds#FeatureTool
 
link doesn´t work

"
Bump :)

I'm trying to figure out how to use this so that I can force my 1TB internal HDD to run at SATA2 instead of SATA3 (hopefully that way it'll stop causing drama).

I've been able to access the tool in 2 ways:
1) ran Parallels Desktop, set Hitachi Feature Tool.img file as a floppy image, booted from this floppy image --> WORKS, however, it can't see any of my HDDs... why not?

2) burned the Feature Tool.iso to a CD and boot from that CD at startup. Works too but since it's DOS and doens't have any mac keyboard drivers, I can't navigate!

Anyone know how to either:
1) get the tool to see my SATA hdds using parallels when booting from an image? or
2) boot to the tool from a CD with keyboard drivers on a mac?


At the moment my setup is:
SSD in main
HDD in opti

P.S. you can get the tool from here: http://www.hgst.com/support/index-fi...ds#FeatureTool
"


The link doesn´t work.
 
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