Re: Toshiba CD Spindown...

[Matthew Dettinger <mcdett csclub stthomas edu>]

That is very odd. I have the exact opposit problem... When I mount my CD
drive it spins non-stop(24 speed) untill I unmount it. The CD's get very
warm. This never happened in Winblows95. No big deal just thought I would
comment on it.



On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Brian Macy wrote:

> This isn't a Linux or RedHat problem but I'm hoping it has a Linux
> solution (it doesn't seem to have a Windows one). I have a Compaq
> Presario 1670 with a Toshiba XM-1902B CD drive in it. The drive seems to
> insist on powering down immediately after it completes reading. This is
> very annoying (especially when playing MP3s off CD) and I want to get
> rid of it.
> 
> I tried kernel 2.2.10-ac3 with the vanderbilt UDMA patch (which supports
> the ALI M5229 controller the laptop uses). Using hdparm -S## seems to
> have no effect on the drive even though the command responds with
> success.
> 
> Brian Macy
> 
> 
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