[ltp] Controlling dvd-drive speed

[Tino Keitel]

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).

Regards,
Tino