Difference between revisions of "How to set optical drive speed"
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The speed of the optical drive is set separately for CD-ROM and DVD, and is reset at reboot and resume from suspend. | The speed of the optical drive is set separately for CD-ROM and DVD, and is reset at reboot and resume from suspend. | ||
| − | * CD-ROM: use | + | * CD-ROM: use |
| − | * DVD: use | + | hdparm -E num |
| + | or | ||
| + | eject -x num | ||
| + | * DVD: use | ||
| + | speedcontrol -x num | ||
| + | (sourcecode [http://safari.iki.fi/speedcontrol.c here]). | ||
| − | For recent ThinkPad models running kernels older than 2.6.15, this may require the [[Problems_with_SATA_and_Linux#No_SMART_support libata pass-through|libata pass-through patch]]. | + | For recent ThinkPad models running Linux kernels older than 2.6.15, this may require the [[Problems_with_SATA_and_Linux#No_SMART_support libata pass-through|libata pass-through patch]]. |
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The speed of the optical drive is set separately for CD-ROM and DVD, and is reset at reboot and resume from suspend.
- CD-ROM: use
hdparm -E num
or
eject -x num
- DVD: use
speedcontrol -x num
(sourcecode here).
For recent ThinkPad models running Linux kernels older than 2.6.15, this may require the libata pass-through patch.
