# HG changeset patch # User diego # Date 1120210407 0 # Node ID aa466b84b1d399a3f2282e3859da3c1887bb3027 # Parent 564a1b5a6c065918ca27d523efb4379bed9d9233 Slightly restructured, mention more tools, small fixes, cosmetics. diff -r 564a1b5a6c06 -r aa466b84b1d3 DOCS/xml/en/cd-dvd.xml --- a/DOCS/xml/en/cd-dvd.xml Fri Jul 01 06:30:43 2005 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/cd-dvd.xml Fri Jul 01 09:33:27 2005 +0000 @@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ CD/DVD drives - -Linux documentation excerpt: - Modern CD-ROM drives can attain very high head speeds, yet some CD-ROM drives @@ -27,11 +24,20 @@ + +Linux + -You can reduce the speed of IDE CD-ROM drives with hdparm or a -program called setcd. It works like this: +You can reduce the speed of IDE CD-ROM drives with hdparm, +setcd or cdctl. It works like this: hdparm -E [speed] [cdrom device] setcd -x [speed] [cdrom device] +cdctl -bS [speed] + + + +If you are using SCSI emulation, you might have to apply the settings to the +real IDE device, not the emulated SCSI device. @@ -44,7 +50,7 @@ If you set it to too high, the drive will continuously spin up and down, and will dramatically decrease the performance. It is recommended that you also tune your CD-ROM drive with hdparm: -hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 cdrom device +hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 [cdrom device] @@ -63,11 +69,30 @@ Plextor SCSI drives. -FreeBSD: -Speed: cdcontrol [-f device] speed speed -DMA: sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 + + + + +FreeBSD + +speed: + +cdcontrol [-f device] speed [speed] + + + +DMA: + +sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 + + + + + + + DVD playback @@ -245,6 +270,8 @@ + + VCD playback