Utility to set cd-rom speed?

[Frisbee]

Hello people!

I am wondering if there exists some utility by which you can set the (max.)speed of a cd-rom player (or DVD-ROM or whatever).

See I have this ASUS DVD-ROM, and it has the annoying habit of running at high speed for a very long period, even though I'm not using it. It's quite noisy.
You could say: just take out the DVD. I know, but I am playing a game which needs its CD occasionally - like twice an hour - so I cannot take it out.
My DVD-ROM continues to spin the cd at high speed for all of the time.
I know that DirectCd lets me set the max speed of my CD-RW, but it cannot set the speed for other drives.


So is there some kind of utility by which I could for instance let it run at a maximum of 8x or 12x? That is fast enough, and very quiet.

Thanks for any info;
Greetings from Belgium.
Carl

 

[Squick]

Hi Frisbee,

You may want to check out CD-Rom Tool from Naiobrin Software, it was featured on TechTV earlier today, I believe it does exactly what you need:
http://cdromtool.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

Squick

 

[Frisbee]

Thanks for your reply!
I'll check it out.

Greetings;
Carl

 

[r2k]

Ahead's DriveSpeed utility works fine for me. I set my Asus reader and Teac writer to 8x for very quiet operation when listening to audio CDs or reading MP3s from CDs.

Check out www.cdspeed2000.com

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by r2k on 01/05/03 11:15 AM.</EM></FONT></P>