Does anyones else''s CD/DVD drives under linux never slow down. When something reads from a disk it never slows the disk down after its done. Not just that but it is much louder than it ever gets under windows. I can hear it just almost loosing balance from time to time. I haven''t had a scratch yet but I worry that it will given enough time. This doesn''t happen under windows so I''m just wondering what gives. After a couple of minutes the disk and drive are red hot. I''m not realy concerned about the drive as they are replaceable but if it jacked up a couple of disks on its way out then thats differnet. I may just be paranoid but it spins faster longer than windows and just doesn''t seam healthy for it.

I wouldn''t worry about it. CD-ROM drives have plenty of built-in smarts, and can reliably be counted on not to screw up your media. The fact that it stays spun-up longer in Linux is most likely just due to driver and caching differences

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How appropriate. You fight like a cow.

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Original post by Sneftel
I wouldn''t worry about it. CD-ROM drives have plenty of built-in smarts, and can reliably be counted on not to screw up your media.

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This is probably not a good thing to post here (since it will make Goober King overly paranoid), but I have to do it : My CDROM drive attacked a CDROM?. Anyway, no: I don''t think *nix was responsible for breaking that CDROM (my friend who broke my Diablo I CDROM was in Windows, anyway), I''m pretty sure it was simply crappy hardware (I continue to buy a different type of no-name drives, and I haven''t had it happen again), so just ask yourself if you trust your CDROM drive or not ...

Oh, and if you really want your CD-rom drives to go slower anyway, you can set the maximum speed with the "hdparm" tool. Look it up in the man pages...