[ltp] Controlling dvd-drive speed

[Gregor R. Goldmann]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Tino Keitel wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 21:47:44 +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 11:11:42AM +0200, Gregor R. Goldmann wrote:
> > > I have a T30 with cdrw/dvd. When watching DVDs, the drive is spinning
> > > with full speed, which is very loud.
> >
> > setcd can help you.
> >
> > > I guess hdparm could controll the speed of ide cdrom drives.
> >
> > Hm, I never knew that.
> >
> > > I use the
> > > ide-scsi so that I can burn cds.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to controll the speed of the drive in the scsi mode?
> >
> > I use ide-scsi too, and setcd works just fine.
> >
> >   setcd -x 20 /dev/cdrom
> >
> > where /dev/cdrom is a symlink to /dev/scd0.
>
> What type of drive do you have? I had no luck on my A30 with 2 Toshiba
> drives (SD-C2512 DVD-ROM and SD-R2412 DVD/CDRW).

setcd works fine with my drive.

I have a Hitachi drive ( HL-DT-ST  Model: RW/DVD GCC-4160N  Rev:
0012)

Gregor