Good morning to you Charles, how are you today ? 

 CA> The speed of rotation varies automatically as you move from the
 CA> center of the CD outward and vice versa. It's not normally
 CA> controllable from software.

        I think that it is. When burning anyway.

 CA> Reading the CD to move the data to the hard drive will be at
 CA> 52x at some point if you have a 52x drive. You would not be in
 CA> control of that. 
 
        A gotcha ! Roxio that is on my system now, offers a choice of
        rate when burning CDs, for any mode. I normally do not pick the
        fastest rate. Have a look.

        Also, does not this rate thing reffer to a transfer of bytes not
        neccessarily an rpm thingee ? If I pick a 24x for instance, to
        maintain that rate, it spins up in the center but slows down on
        the outside reach of the read head ?

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