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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!news.ucdavis.edu!not-for-mail From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CDROM Changers Date: 10 Dec 1995 04:20:55 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 13 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4adn77$gsg@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <BILLW.95Dec8181411@puli.cisco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] William (billw@puli.cisco.com) wrote: : Is there freeBSD support for the multi-disk (scsi) CDROM changers that are : starting to appear on the "obsolete" market at attractive prices? (ie : doublespeed 7-disk cdrom changer for $129 from Disk Drive Depot.) Not only is there support, there is GREAT support for the Pioneer DRM-604x 6-disk CDROM changer. The just hook it up and generic kernel handles it fine. I just had to MAKEDEV cd{1-5} and create 6 mount points. Thats it. To get this kind of support on SunOS 4.1.x my ex-company had to pay $750 a pop. And I get it for free. :-)) -- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)