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From: hm@hcswork.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: CDROM Changers
Date: 12 Dec 95 08:06:02 GMT
Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH
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In <4aga5j$ei@kelewan.dandelion.com> "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com> writes:

>In article <DJECMK.KqA@sysadm.physics.uiowa.edu> ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu (Larry Granroth) writes:

>  The Pioneer drive appears as multiple SCSI LUN's and accessing the appropriate
>  logical unit causes the disks to change while some of the changers (e.g.
>  those made by Nakamichi, NRC MBR-7) apparently require a special SCSI command
>  to change disks.  Is there any support for the latter?

>The Nakamichi MBR-7 also appears as multiple LUNs and automatically
>switches disks.  No special SCSI commands are necessary with mine.

Does the MBR-7 work for you ? What FreeBSD version are you using ? What host
adaptor are you using ?

I can't get mine to work because it panics after some accesses under 2.0.5
(and someone else reported that it still does it under 2.1).

curious,
hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis    HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH    Hamburg, Europe
                       "There are lies, damn lies, and open systems." (unknown)