<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Damian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:damian@gingermagic.co.uk">damian@gingermagic.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
>Damian wrote:<br>
>> I'm guessing it's because it's spinning so fast and I'm also guessing<br>
>> that it doesn't need to spin so fast.<br>
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>> Is there any way to change this?<br>
>Try this forum topic...<br>
> <<a href="http://club.cdfreaks.com/f34/set-dvd-read-speed-nec-3550-too-loud-181008/" target="_blank">http://club.cdfreaks.com/f34/set-dvd-read-speed-nec-3550-too-loud-181008/</a>><a href="http://club.cdfreaks.com/f34/set-dvd-read-speed-nec-3550-too-loud-181008/" target="_blank">http://club.cdfreaks.com/f34/set-dvd-read-speed-nec-3550-too-loud-181008/</a><br>
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Thanks for that. After a bit of playing around, I menaged to get it to work by using these commands:<br>
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hdparm -E 2 /dev/scd0<br>
and<br>
hdparm -E 0 /dev/scd0<br>
to reset the speed.<br>
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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?<br>
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Damian<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><br>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.<br>
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