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Xref: sserve comp.periphs.scsi:13896 comp.os.386bsd.misc:978 comp.unix.misc:9093 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:4378 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:67914 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!ogicse!emory!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!sunic!seunet!seunet!unitech!akalla Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware 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$njr@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> Organization: Scribona Sverige AB, Stockholm, Sweden Article-I.D.: Scribona.1993Sep13.092921.19691 Lines: 24 In <26r5ea$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