On 2009-12-01, Jacob Meuser <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 05:11:03PM -0500, Dope Ice Apollyon the Third wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Christopher Zimmermann >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi! >> > >> > I'm searching for the OpenBSD equivalent to 'hdparm -E' >> > which sets the drive speed of a cd/dvd drive. >> > Google did only find an old post without replies. >> > Is there a way to do this in OpenBSD? >> > >> > >> > Christopher >> >> If it was possible I would have expected cdio(1) to mention it; it can >> pick write but not read speed, so I guess you're out of luck. > > there are DMA/PIO flags for atapiscsi(4), but I don't know if that's > really what the OP is looking for. >
more likely looking for controls to restrict the rate at which the disk spins, maybe to make it quieter, or slightly less unsafe if you have to try and recover data from a damaged disk.
