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Re: How to slow down noisy CDROM
- To: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh(at-nospam)math.technion.ac.il>, Schlomo Schapiro <schlomo(at-nospam)schapiro.org>
- Subject: Re: How to slow down noisy CDROM
- From: Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz(at-nospam)kde.org>
- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 12:50:08 +0200
- Cc: Linux-Il Mailing List <linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il>
- In-Reply-To: <20011028123344.A11290@leeor.math.technion.ac.il>
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.21_heb2.08.0012011534001.411-100000@nessy.home> <20011028123344.A11290@leeor.math.technion.ac.il>
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
> 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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