stephen_agent at jsw
Nov 25, 2009, 4:31 PM
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On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:39:23 +1300, you wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Stephen Worthington
><stephen_agent [at] jsw> wrote:
>> I am looking at what I would need for a MythTV box for my mother. She
>> is a complete technophobe and can be guaranteed to find a way of
>> making any piece of technology do something strange. She does have
>> some DVDs that she watches, including opera, so any box for her would
>> need a DVD drive. But all the modern ones seem to be very high speed
>> and *extremely* loud, so that they grossly interfere with hearing a
>> program if they are in the same room. The obvious solution to that is
>> what I do - rip the DVD and play it from hard disk. But my mother is
>> very unlikely to be able to do that. So, I was wondering if anyone
>> out there had run across a quiet DVD drive recently?
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>I have seen info on the -users mailing list about how to limit the
>speed of the drive, which quietens it considerably.
Thanks for that. It looks like hdparm -E is what I want. I will have
a play with that and see how effective it is. But only once I recover
the MythTV box - the boot partition on disk 4 that I am using for
trying out 9.10-0.22-fixes-JYA has just crashed again for the second
time in two days. fsck is reporting all sorts of nasties, so I do not
think I will be able to recover it. And I am getting a persistent
error when booted from 9.04 saying it is unable to enumerate a USB
port. I must have a hardware problem somewhere.
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