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Re: How to slow down noisy CDROM



> The hdparm utility, available at least in Redhat 7.* in the seperate
> "hdparm" package (I didn't check whether other distributions have it too),
> lets you do this. For example,
>
> 	hdparm -E 4
>
> switches the CD-ROM to 4x speed, and near silence, instead of its default
> 1000x speed (or whatever ;)) and jet-engine-like noise. Perfect for playing
> music in the background.

You're a bit wrong here - when you play ANY Audio CD - the CDROM drive's 
speed goes to 1x speed which is the needed speed for playing Audio CD's.

-- 
Hetz Ben Hamo
hetz@kde.org

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