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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 11:21:36 +0000
From: Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com>
To: amobbs@allstor-sw.co.uk
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Subject: Re: cdrom speed adjustment ioctl
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On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 11:06:53AM +0000, amobbs@allstor-sw.co.uk wrote:
> >There would not be such a thing for SCSI cdrom's too? It would probably
> >squeeze a few extra months out of my cdrom player. On some cd's (mainly ones
> >you get with magazines and books) it's making gut-wrenching noises and
> >spinning up and down all the time.
> 
> No idea if there's an ioctl, but you should be able to do this with camcontrol,
> e.g. if your drive supports the MMC Set CD Speed command:
> 
> camcontrol -n cd -u <n> -c "BB 00 XX XX 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00"
> 
> Where <n> is the number of the CD device you want to set the speed of, and XX XX
> is the hex of the desired speed in kbps.

Is this a project for a rainy day I see before me?

cdspeed(1)	Imaginary Man Page			cdspeed(1)

NAME
     cdspeed - control (slow down!) the speed that a cdrom will operate at.

SYOPSIS
     cdspeed <device> <speed muliplier>

YADDA
     yadda yadda yadda

FreeBSD 3.3		November 29 1999			1


-- 
Mike Bristow, Geek At Large	         ``Beware of Invisible Cows''
         GK/RT0011 - Essential reading for train-spotters.


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