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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