# 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
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+
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+
+FreeBSD
+
+speed:
+
+cdcontrol [-f device] speed [speed]
+
+
+
+DMA:
+
+sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma=1
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+
+
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+
DVD playback
@@ -245,6 +270,8 @@
+
+
VCD playback