How can I limit CD drive speed while on the live CD to avoid drive noise?

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Published on 2010-11-11T22:37:26Z Indexed on 2011/01/06 6:59 UTC
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I sometimes disconect my harddisks for the weeks while only using the internet and I use the Ubuntu Live CD. But every time it needs something while in live desktop it accelerates and makes a lot of noise, also the acceleration takes too long. I want lower drive speed than acceleration lags, because acceleration lags stop me completly exactly when I need something.

How can I lower the CD drive speed, say to maximum 16x, without restarting? I can't restart because I only use the CD drive, no harddisks, no flash disks, no network disks.

Edit:

No USB drives.

Setcd does not work for the live session.

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