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

[Damian]

 >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