On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 19:49 -0700, Robert Rolf wrote:
> 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.

FWIW pretty much all drives that can spin a disk at speeds that might be
"hairy" have vibration sensors that cause the drive to immediately back
off if the disk starts to vibrate. TTYL
 

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