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.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+05MsfBjEv/Ah2egRAqtEAKCG+gl+bB60xM/2rnOVXJMCAWhw4ACfQk+Y ACU8YghPNGj/0CEy7rcxBsA= =JGwd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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.
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On Tue, 27 May 2003 22:32:15 +0700
Constant Brouerius van Nidek
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.
Go to http://freshmeat.net and enter "cdrom speed" in the search box. If you can get one of these to control your cdrom speed, you can lower the speed to reduce noise, then jack it up when you want full speed. I seem to remember some utility like hdparm, which had a setting for setting max cdrom speed. Maybe it's one of the above? -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 18:44, zentara wrote:
Go to http://freshmeat.net and enter "cdrom speed" in the search box. If you can get one of these to control your cdrom speed, you can lower the speed to reduce noise, then jack it up when you want full speed. I seem to remember some utility like hdparm, which had a setting for setting max cdrom speed. Maybe it's one of the above?
SuSE already includes a tool for this: /sbin/hdparm --help Hans
It could be a power save feature. I have a 50x on this box which is
silent until I access it.
I also have one of those old 2x. My first distro was Suse7.0 and took 9
hours to load on a P1 with 32meg.
Last load took less than an hour with a 50x.
I know there are settings for CDRW speed of write so there should be one
for the read speed.
I assume you didn't find anything on the SUSE site.
This noise is more pronounced on the LiteON 40x12x48 CDRW on the other
box except when writing.
Its likely a cooling fan. I notice the CPU fans make more noise than the
larger case and power supply fans.
Change the speed of the drive if you can. Myself I would rather have the
noise so I know its working.
CWSIV
On Tue, 27 May 2003 22:32:15 +0700 Constant Brouerius van Nidek
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.
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