[ltp] Controlling dvd-drive speed

[Marius Gedminas]

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.

Marius Gedminas
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