CD drive spin-up spin-down increases read/write time

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I'm running a program from the CD rom on my Dell Latitude D600 running
Windows XP, and after a short period of inactivity, the CD drive stops
spinning (spin-down). When the program then next needs to access
information on the CD there is a long delay while the drive gets back
up to speed (spin-up). This make the program run much less smoothly and
is rather time-consuming.

Does anyone know if there is a way to make the CD rom never spin-down,
so that the CD continues to spin constantly while in the drive?

Thanks! <Michael>

 

[Chas]

I'm running a program from the CD rom on my Dell Latitude D600 running
Windows XP, and after a short period of inactivity, the CD drive stops
spinning (spin-down). When the program then next needs to access
information on the CD there is a long delay while the drive gets back
up to speed (spin-up). This make the program run much less smoothly and
is rather time-consuming.

Does anyone know if there is a way to make the CD rom never spin-down,
so that the CD continues to spin constantly while in the drive?

Thanks! <Michael>

Hi
What i would do is, create a image (ISO) of the CD Disk save
to your hard drive
mount it with something like"Virtual clone Drive"
freeware link below
http://www.elby.de/fun/software/
and run it off that
no more waiting for spin up from your CD Drive
Chas

 

[Bob I]

Contact the drive manufacturer for any utilities that would allow
resetting of the spindown.

 

[Guest]

I am also looking to solve this problem (Spin-up, Spin-down).
I cannot ISO to HD and use virtual drive as some Developers,
(err corpporations), prevent this through DMR technologies,
(ie. copyright protection software that can render programs and
CD/DVD devices inoperable)

All I want is to make my CD player to continue spinning.