Looking for a utility

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:41 pm

I'm wondering if there is a program that is designed to keep your cd-rom drive spinning at a certain rpm until you shut it down.

I've been playing some Playstation games on my laptop but after awhile the cd spins down and when the game requires drive access it hard pauses the game until the cd reaches the correct rpm.

I just need something to keep the drive spinning at 2x or so.

Thanks!

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:17 pm

Too bad it's a laptop and you probably don't have enough hard drive space to simply rip the disk to a image then use daemon tools to mount the image.

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:55 pm

I wrote an app that would simply read from the drive at specified time intervals in order to keep it spun up. It doesn't do anything to control the RPM though ...

Here it is ... try it if ya like :

http://www.knology.net/~pleopard/DiskHit.exe

When you run it it automatically hides. Unhide it for the first run, check the drives you want to hit and select a time interval ... hide it again. Next time you start up fresh it'll remember your old settings.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:18 pm

I've tried ripping the disk, the emulator has a run ISO or CD rom ability, but Nero can't read all the sectors and it fails.

Ice, thanks for the link but the drive still spins down.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:46 pm

JMEaT wrote:I've tried ripping the disk, the emulator has a run ISO or CD rom ability, but Nero can't read all the sectors and it fails.

Ice, thanks for the link but the drive still spins down.

Try something other then nero to rip the disk, you may have better luck with other programs.

Vander · Post by **Vander** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:03 pm

I've been using WinISO for all my CD image needs.

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_d ... 986,00.asp

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:20 am

I've tried a few rippers but I'll give that one a shot, thanks Vander.

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:26 am

Find out what protection is on the CD, then use Alcohol 120% and set it accordingly and rip it. Then load the image in 120% and awaaaaaay you go.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:42 pm

That utility didn't work either. Its no biggie, thanks for the info.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 3:14 pm

Did you try cleaning the disk?

Or use a different computer/drive to try and rip it.

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 4:42 pm

alcohol 120%