Re: adding scsi_set_speed support to ogle

Fri Jun 06 2003, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> sorry if the title of this message is a bit less than perfect
> 
> what i am wondering is if there is any way (with current ogle sources)
> to set the speed of the dvd as a way of reducing noise from the drive
> 
No, sorry.

> cdrecord (from cdrtools) has a mechanism for doing such a thing
> 
Perhaps setting the speed before using Ogle will be enough?

> i know i'm being really lazy here by asking and not applying the "use 
> the source, luke" rule
> a very quick glance has thrown up nothing obvious
> 
> i've build a machine with a fanless power supply, an epia-M9000 m/b and 
> a quit
> hard disk (Seagate Barracuda 7200.7, 25db)
> 
> the main noise is now coming from the DVD (a NEC ND1100-A)

Yeah, same here and I don't even have a fanless power supply ;)

It would be good to find, or implement, a solution to this.
I know bjorn looked at setting the drive speed and using streming 
reads, though I'm not sure this was under Linux.  My memmory is 
failing as to what it resulted in.   Hope bjorn can fill in the
details here when he gets back.

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Håkan Hjort