Hitachi Feature Tool is a utility that allows the user control over some of the parameters of today’s high performance ATA hard disk drives. The features, which this release of the Feature Tool supports, are, Change Advanced Power Mode, Change Cache Settings, Change the Capacity, Change S.M.A.R.T. Operations, Change Ultra DMA Mode, Show Drive Temperature and Change SATA Settings.
The Hitachi Feature Tool is a utility for controlling parameters of ATA hard disk drives made by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and legacy IBM drives. It provides functions such as changing advanced power mode, cache settings, drive capacity, S.M.A.R.T. operations, Ultra DMA mode, SATA settings, and displaying drive temperature.
The manual describes how to create a bootable 1.44‑MB diskette with the Feature Tool, run the program on Windows or Linux, and warns about potential incompatibilities when enabling higher SATA speeds or spread‑spectrum clocking. It also lists supported drive models, controller chipsets, and hardware restrictions.
| Maximum SATA interface speed | 3.0 Gb/s |
|---|---|
| Supported drive manufacturers | Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and legacy IBM ATA drives |
| Unsupported controllers | Promise FastTrak100 TX2, Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 PCI‑to‑ATA RAID controllers |
Use the Change SATA Settings option and select either 1.5 Gb/s or 3.0 Gb/s as the maximum supported interface speed.
The utility does not support the Promise FastTrak100 TX2 and Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 PCI‑to‑ATA RAID controllers.