Re: Slowing down CDROM drives (was: Re: ATAPI CDRW which doesn't work)

[Jens Axboe]

On Mon, Feb 05 2001, Rogerio Brito wrote:
>       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);

-- 
Jens Axboe

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