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author acki2
date Sun, 17 Jun 2001 21:27:11 +0000
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2 Tune up CDROM
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3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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5 Introduction
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6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
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7 >From Linux documentation:
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9 Some CDROM drives are capable of changing their head-speed. There are several
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10 reasons for changing the speed of a CDROM drive. Badly pressed CDROMs may
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11 benefit from less-than-maximum head rate. Modern CDROM drives can obtain very
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12 high head rates (up to 24-times is common). It has been reported that these
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13 drives can make reading errors at these high speeds, reducing the speed can
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14 prevent data loss in these circumstances. Finally, some of these drives can
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15 make an annoyingly loud noise, which a lower speed may reduce.
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17 Howto
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18 ~~~~~
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19 The recommended way to do it is with a program called 'setcd' . It's kinda
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20 old, but won't be too hard to find on the Net.
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21 Use it with :
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22 setcd -x <speed> <cdrom device>
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24 Also you can try :
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25 echo current_speed:4 >/proc/ide/<cdrom device>/settings
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26 but you'll need root privileges. (It didn't work for me - Gabucino)
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28 I use following command too :
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29 echo file_readahead:2000000 >/proc/ide/<cdrom device>/settings
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30 for 2MB prefetched reading from the file (it's useful for scratched CDROMs).
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32 It's recommended that you tuneup your CDROM drive also with hdparm :
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33 hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 <cdrom device>
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34 to enable using DMA access, readahead, and IRQ unmasking.
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35 (if you don't understand these, *read the hdparm manpage*)
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37 Final words
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38 ~~~~~~~~~~~
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39 Please refer to "/proc/ide/<cdrom device>/settings" for fine-tuning your CDROM.
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41 Nick Kurshev & Gabucino
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42 <nickols_k@mail.ru>
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