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Re: How to slow down noisy CDROM
- To: Schlomo Schapiro <schlomo(at-nospam)schapiro.org>
- Subject: Re: How to slow down noisy CDROM
- From: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh(at-nospam)math.technion.ac.il>
- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 12:33:44 +0200
- Cc: Linux-Il Mailing List <linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il>
- Hebrew-Date: 11 Heshvan 5762
- In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21_heb2.08.0012011534001.411-100000@nessy.home>; from schlomo@schapiro.org on Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 03:37:45PM +0200
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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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