[ltp] Dangers in setting "CD-ROM" speed to "high?"

[brandon at uncompiled.com]

On my Thinkpad 600e CD HIGH means that cd speed is maxed out, and no
physical damage has been noticed.  What model of laptop/cdrom do you have,
that might help.

-Brandon Philips

>
> Hello!
>
> I was mucking with my BIOS power options to make sure my laptop doesn't
> try to hibernate -- it can only suspend, because I wiped the DOS and
> Windows partitions.
>
> I noticed in the power options that it was possible to set CD-ROM speed to
> "high." and I decided to enable that to reap possible benefits.
>
> A cursory web search didn't turn up possible dangers -- though I am
> wondering if the issue is merely one of power drain, or if it's possible
> to damage my CD-R/DVD somehow with this option.
>
> Any advice?
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