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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: Slowing down CDROM drives (was: Re: ATAPI CDRW which doesn't work)
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Hi!

> > 	Well, this has nothing to do with the above, but is there any
> > 	utility or /proc entry that lets me say to my CD drive that it
> > 	should not work at full speed?
> > 
> > 	Basically, some drives make way too much noise when they're
> > 	operating at full speed. When I'd like to listen to some MP3s
> > 	from a burned CD-R, what I'm currently doing is copying the
> > 	files that I want to /tmp and listening from there, but this
> > 	is obviously a dirty solution. :-(
> 
> 	ioctl(cd_fd, CDROM_SELECT_SPEED, speed);

Does this actually work? I helped my friend with partly broken cdrom
(worked only at low speeds) and it did not have much effect. It did
not make my cdrom quiet, either, AFAI can remember.
								Pavel
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I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
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