CD-ROM drive - keep spinup

July 8, 2008

This is a strange request but I must ask anyway. I know that modern CD-ROM

drives are pre-programmed to spin down after a few minutes of inactivity to

help save power or just to make them quieter. However, is there a registry

setting or utility to actually keep the CD-ROM drive spinning up for as long

as I need it to?

July 10, 2008

Re: CD-ROM drive - keep spinup

"Omega_six" <Omega_six@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:B37E9939-A2F3-49C2-BA1C-091B84258EBC@microsoft.com...

> This is a strange request but I must ask anyway. I know that modern

> CD-ROM

> drives are pre-programmed to spin down after a few minutes of inactivity

> to

> help save power or just to make them quieter. However, is there a

> registry

> setting or utility to actually keep the CD-ROM drive spinning up for as

> long

> as I need it to?

I believe this is set in the drive's firmware, so the answer is probably,

"No". There is a further complication in that, the actual spin speed is a

function of the position of the data on the disc (particularly at the faster

speeds which work in ZCLV mode).

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