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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Pioneer CD-ROM Hardware Support ???
Date: 6 Jul 1995 15:44:59 +0200
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John Paul Morrison <jmorriso@ConcordPacific.Com> wrote:
>>I'd like to get a system up under FreeBSD, but must have support for a
>>Pioneer DRM-602X cd-rom changer (the one with a 6-cd cassette). Does
>>such device support exist? Is anyone using one with their BSD system?
>
>It should work the same as any other SCSI CDROM drive, no special
>drivers needed. The SCSI code has to probe multiple LUNs - I don't
>know if that's the default for BSD (needed a #define to make it work
>in Linux)
There used to be a `ch' driver in BSD (changer device), but apparently
nobody has been using it for ages.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)