Manpage of cdspeed

cdspeed

cdspeed(1)                USER COMMANDS                cdspeed(1)

NAME

cdspeed - decrease the speed of you cdrom to get faster access time

SYNOPSIS

cdspeed [-h] [-d device] -s speed

DESCRIPTION

Modern cdrom drives are too fast. It can take several seconds on a 60x speed cdrom drive to spin it up and read data from the drive. The result is that these drives are just a lot slower than a 8x or 24x drive. This is especially true if you are only occasionally (e.g every 5 seconds) reading a small file. This utility limits the speed, makes the drive more responsive when accessing small files.

cdspeed make the drive also less noisy and is very useful if you want to listen to music on your computer.

OPTIONS

-h: display a short help text
-d: use the given device instead of /dev/cdrom
-s: set the speed. The argument is a integer. Zero means restore maximum speed.

EXAMPLES

Set the maximum speed to 8 speed cdrom:: cdspeed -s 8

Restore maximum speed:: cdspeed -s 0

EXIT STATUS

cdspeed returns a zero exist status if it succeeds to change to set the maximum speed of the cdrom drive. Non zero is returned in case of failure.

AUTHOR

Guido Socher (guido (at) linuxfocus.org)