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Subject: Re: Optical/CD Jukeboxes and PC-UNIX?
Message-ID: <1993Sep13.092921.19691@Scribona.SE>
From: akalla@Scribona.SE (Jan Akalla)
Date: 13 Sep 93 09:29:21 GMT
References: <26r5ea$njr@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
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In <26r5ea$njr@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
   ngorelic@speclab.cr.usgs.gov.cr.usgs.gov (Noel S. Gorelick) writes:
>I am interested in finding out if anyone has succesfully used
>any Magneto-Optical or CD Jukebox with any flavor of PC based UNIX.
>(BSDI, SCO, any USL deriviative, etc...)

Yes, I have just recently tested the Pioneer DRM-604X CD-ROM Minichanger.
It can have 6 CD-ROMs in a magazine, and switch between them on demand.
It also uses what Pioneer calls Quadraspin (TM), wich according to the
documentaion gives it a data-rate of 612KBytes/sec. I haven't meassured the
speed, but it felt very good compared to a 'Doublespin' drive connected
to the same system.

I tried it with SunSoft INTERACTIVE Unix version 4.0, and with Solaris x86.

On IUS, I reconfigured HPDD using kconfig, and after relink and reboot, I
could use the drive. 

On Sx86, I had to modify the /kernel/drv/cmdk.conf file, to allow for more
than one LUN per SCSI-id, after that the drive worked.

If you need more information, please contact me.

/Akalla