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From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Multi-disk CDROM Recommendation?
Date: 3 Nov 1995 11:02:15 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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David A. Roger (daroger@tisc.com) wrote:
: Runing FreeBSD 2.0.5 - Pentium 100
:
: Lookin for a recommendation for multi-disk cdrom unit.
:
: Want a SCSI unit that uses only one scsi-id.
My Pioneer DRM-604x SCSI 6 disk SCSI 4-x speed cdrom drive works GREAT with
FreeBSD. It takes only one SCSI address. It is known as
/dev/cd{0,1,2,3,4,5}a and I can make multiple mounts (as in cd0a -> cdrom0,
cd1a -> cdrom1, etc) and the driver will change the disk currently active
in the drive as I access different cdroms.
I was QUITE suprised to see this device suported (and so well) in FreeBSD.
Just 1 year ago my company had to pay $750 for drivers for SunOS (solaris
not supported) to have the same functionality.
-- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)