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Re: How to slow down noisy CDROM



Hi,

well, back then I really did find an answer: setcd. It comes with debian
but you can compile it everywhere. Has also a bunch of other nice features
(auto eject on umount etc.).

Thanks anyway :-)

Schlomo



 On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 01, 2000, Schlomo Schapiro wrote about "How to slow down noisy CDROM":
> > Hi,
> >
> > does anybody know how to slow down a noisy CD ? I use it mostly to play
> > MP3s and the vacuum cleaner noise doesn't fit the music (and the CD would
> > be still fast enough if it would run at 4x instead of 36x).
>
> This is probably a record, answering a question after 11 months[1], but I'll
> answer in the hope that it will help other people (I hope that Schlomo
> himself already found an answer by now).
>
> 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.
>
> Use
> 	hdparm -E 0
> to return the CD-ROM to it's default automatic-speed mode (which usually
> means use-the-maximum-speed).
>
>
> [1] If anyone is curious how come I'm returning to this question now, well,
> my linux-il folder (into which linux-il mail is automatically filtered) just
> got over 5MB, and I'm trying to clean it ;)
>
>

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