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

[Tino Keitel]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 09:08:35 -0400, Mitchell Gil Maltenfort wrote:
> 
> 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.

Then it won't even try to hibernate. The BIOS is clever enough not to
try to hibernate if there is no hibernation file. However, make sure to
overwrite the partition that contained the hibernation filesi. Once I
trashed my linux partition because the BIOS thought that there was
still a hibernation file (I shrinked the DOS partition but forgot to
re-create the hibernation file, so the BIOS used the old position of
the hibernation file)

> 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.

On my A30, it's just a matter of noise produced by the CD/DVD drive. I
haven't tested it, but with setcd -x you can set it during runtime, at
least for CDs, no need to reboot and fiddle around with BIOS settings.

Regards,
Tino