Re: set speed for Toshiba CDROM drive ?

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Fri, 22 Aug 1997 12:59:29 -0400


Gerd Knorr wrote:
> But one question remains: what unit should be used for speed selection?
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/cdrom/cdrom-standard.tex mentions *nothing*
> (should be fixed). The scsi commands use kbyte/s here (raw, i.e. 176=1x).
> This is IMHO ok and we should use that too.

Perhaps you could accept 1-175 as meaning 1x, 2x, etc., and require that
values over 176 be multiples of 176 meaning (arg/176)x. This would be
convenient, and cover all the cases (at least until we have 176x CD
drives.)

Regards,
Bill