This one time, at band camp, Dan Jacobson said:
> We see
>        -M     Get/set Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) setting. Most modern
>               harddisk drives have the ability to speed down  the  head  move-
>               ments  to  reduce  their  noise output.  The possible values are
>               between 0 and 254. 128 is the most quiet (and therefore slowest)
>               setting and 254 the fastest (and loudest). Some drives have only
>               two levels (quiet / fast), while others may have different  lev-
>               els  between  128 and 254.
> 
> Well that leaves between 0 and 127 unexplained.  And if 128 is the
> most quiet, then one even wonders more about 0 to 127.  If you said
> 
>     The possible values are between 128 and 254. 128 is the most quiet
>     (and therefore slowest)
> 
> Then the page would make sense.  But I'm not sure what the reality is.
> All I know is the paragraph reads weird.

I see that this is the same as #230331.  I guess the patch got dropped
at some point.  I will resurrect it and send it upstream, but probably
not for several weeks.
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