No effect on spin-noise -- the drives always spin at exactly 7200rpm (or 5400rpm) when operating.

But the head-scrubbing noise will completely disappear with the right values. Note that this is a *persistent* setting, so a person could boot KNOPPIX to change it once with hdparm, and then use MS-Win from there on..

[EDIT] and/or do the change with the drive temporarily plugged into a different system, and then transplant it back into the TIVO or whereever.

Cheers


Edited by mlord (02/03/2005 16:22)