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

2001-02-11 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Feb 11 2001, Alan Olsen wrote: > > It's no news that vendors only implement what they want to. New > > cd-r/w and dvd drives are not required to implement this command, > > so it may not work there either. > > Take a look at the code for cdparanoia or one of the other MP3 ripping > progra

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

2001-02-11 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Feb 10 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > 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.

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

2001-02-11 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, Feb 10 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > > 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. It's no n

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

2001-02-11 Thread Pavel Machek
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'

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

2001-02-05 Thread Rogerio Brito
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 c

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

2001-02-05 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Feb 05 2001, Guest section DW wrote: > I missed the original post, but there is a mount flag "-o speed=" > for precisely this purpose. Hah, this I did not know. Checking the util-linux source, it might be a really good idea to not about if setting the speed fails. This will happen quite o

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

2001-02-05 Thread Guest section DW
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 01:34:24AM -0200, 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? I missed the original post, but there is a mount fl

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

2001-02-05 Thread 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 >

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

2001-02-05 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 01:34:24AM -0200, 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? /proc/ide/hdX/settings ? The (current,init)_speed sett