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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 16:23:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
To: Rogerio Brito <rbrito@iname.com>
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Subject: Re: Slowing down CDROM drives (was: Re: ATAPI CDRW which doesn't
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On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Rogerio Brito wrote:

> On Feb 05 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > 	ioctl(cd_fd, CDROM_SELECT_SPEED, speed);
> 
> 	I'd like to thank everybody that replied either on the list
> 	and privately. I didn't know that I could just use the /proc
> 	entries to change the IDE driver speed with a simple:
> 
> 	echo current_speed:4 > /proc/ide/hdc/settings

You can not it has nothing to do with the speed of the device but the
transfer rate between the host and the device.

Andre Hedrick
Linux ATA Development
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