On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 21:11:14 +0000 (UTC) Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> On 2009-12-01, Jacob Meuser <jake...@sdf.lonestar.org> > wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 05:11:03PM -0500, Dope Ice > > Apollyon the Third wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Christopher Zimmermann > >> <madro...@zakweb.de> wrote: > >> > Hi! > >> > > >> > I'm searching for the OpenBSD equivalent to 'hdparm > >> > -E' which sets the drive speed of a cd/dvd drive. > >> > Google did only find an old post without replies. > >> > Is there a way to do this in OpenBSD? > >> > > >> > > >> > Christopher > >> > >> If it was possible I would have expected cdio(1) to > >> mention it; it can pick write but not read speed, so I > >> guess you're out of luck. > > > > there are DMA/PIO flags for atapiscsi(4), but I don't > > know if that's really what the OP is looking for. > > > > more likely looking for controls to restrict the rate at > which the disk spins, maybe to make it quieter, or > slightly less unsafe if you have to try and recover data > from a damaged disk. > exactly. I want it more quiet. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
