Back in 2000? Yammaha made a 52X CD reader that DIDN'T spin
the drive at warp speed. It used 8 beams to read a swath of tracks at 
once. Good for serial reads of data (like gaming texture maps)
but not for random I/O.

Some drive (AOpen?) have a utility that lets you set the maximum
drive speed so that you can safely read damaged media.

R

Peter Johansson wrote:

> Bob Blick writes:
> 
> 
>>Clearly it's your fault, you over-revved the CD and the centrifugal force
>>blew it apart :)
> 
> 
> As an aside, the reason that 52x cdrom drives were only produced for a
> short period of time is because this was happening far too
> frequently.  At those speeds just a slight instability can lead to
> oscillations which will shatter the disc.
> 
> -p.
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