Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4749 mails)

["Ty C. Mixon" <tymanthius@xxxxxxx>]

Probably all it is that you're hearing is the cd spinning very fast.  It
does sound like a loud fan in some drives.  A few drives manage to quiet
themselves a good bit, but I find it's usually not worth the extra
price.

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 11:32, Thibaut Cousin wrote:
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> Le Mardi 27 Mai 2003 17:32, Constant Brouerius van Nidek a écrit :
> > Just bought me a new cdrw because my old one just did not read every
> > time I used it ;-(.
> > This new cdrw 52x24x52 from Asus is much faster then the old one 2x
> > read but what I found strange is that every time the cd drive reads a
> > data disk it starts making a noise during the read. It seems to be a
> > fan working overtime. Think it is normal but I just wanted to know
> > why a fan is build in this cdrw.
> 
>   Perhaps it's just the CD turning very fast? I have never heard of fans 
> installed in internal CD drives. It's true that when a CD turns faster 
> than, say, 20x, it makes quite some noise.
> 
> - -- 
> Thibaut Cousin
> Web : http://www.thibaut-cousin.net
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