The following reply was made to PR bin/35216; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/35216: No way to control drive speeds
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:07:50 +0100

 On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 03:05:00AM +0000, fuyuki@hadaly.org wrote:
 > >Number:         35216
 > >Category:       bin
 > >Synopsis:       No way to control drive speeds
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       low
 > >Responsible:    bin-bug-people
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          change-request
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Sat Dec 09 03:05:00 +0000 2006
 > >Originator:     Kimura Fuyuki
 > >Release:        4.99.5
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > NetBSD lapis.hadaly.org 4.99.5 NetBSD 4.99.5 (LAPIS) #163: Sun Dec  3 11:06:29 JST 2006  fuyuki@lapis.hadaly.org:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/LAPIS i386
 > 
 > >Description:
 > The follwing patch adds a speed setting feature for optical drives
 > (DVDs and CDROMs) to dkctl. I'm not sure that here is the right place
 > to implement this feature (maybe not...)  but sure that many people
 > need way to control drive speeds.
 > 
 > This is similar to:
 > 
 > Linux's speedcontrol
 > http://noto.de/speed/speedcontrol.c
 > 
 > Windows's Nero DriveSpeed
 > http://www.cdspeed2000.com/go.php3?link=nerodrivespeed.html
 > 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > Play a cd or dvd and hear the noise.
 > >Fix:
 > http://www.hadaly.org/fuyuki/dkctl.c.patch
 
 I'd say this should be implemented in scsictl(8) instead. Can you
 move it there ? 
 
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 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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