[mythtv-users] OT: Very noisy DVD drive/burner

[Jelte Veldstra]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Damian <damian at gingermagic.co.uk> wrote:

> >Damian wrote:
> >> I'm guessing it's because it's spinning so fast and I'm also guessing
> >> that it doesn't need to spin so fast.
> >>
> >> Is there any way to change this?
> >Try this forum topic...
> > <
> http://club.cdfreaks.com/f34/set-dvd-read-speed-nec-3550-too-loud-181008/>
> http://club.cdfreaks.com/f34/set-dvd-read-speed-nec-3550-too-loud-181008/
> >
>
> Thanks for that. After a bit of playing around, I menaged to get it to work
> by using these commands:
>
> hdparm -E 2 /dev/scd0
> and
> hdparm -E 0 /dev/scd0
> to reset the speed.
>
> I'll look into how to automate their use, but I'm having a different
> problem now. The drive doesn't seem to recognise audio CD's. I tested it
> when I first plugged it in, and it was finding the audio cd's, but didn't
> seem to want to play them. I thought at the time that I'd just come back to
> that problem. However, now it doesn't even seem to recognise them. Any idea
> what to do with this?
>
> Damian
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The hdparm -E commands only set the CD read speeds, not the DVD read speeds
right? The speedcontrol.c option presented in the link above worked well for
me until the change to libata. With libata I haven't found a good solution
for slowing the optical drive. Curious if someone found a solution for both
CD and DVD and libata.
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