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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!pendragon!ames!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!gizmo.nas.nasa.gov!not-for-mail From: truesdel@gizmo.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Truesdell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CDROM Changers Date: 13 Dec 1995 15:55:57 -0800 Organization: A InterNetNews test installation Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4anp6d$qtn@gizmo.nas.nasa.gov> References: <BILLW.95Dec8181411@puli.cisco.com> <4adn77$gsg@mark.ucdavis.edu> <DJECMK.KqA@sysadm.physics.uiowa.edu> <4aga5j$ei@kelewan.dandelion.com> <hm.818755562@hcswork.hcs.de> <4akfkt$1ei@kelewan.dandelion.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gizmo.nas.nasa.gov X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #61 (NOV) "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com> writes: >In article <hm.818755562@hcswork.hcs.de> hm@hcswork.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) writes: > In <4aga5j$ei@kelewan.dandelion.com> "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com> writes: > >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). >Sorry, but I cannot help you on that one. I'm a Linux user, not FreeBSD, >but I read and contribute here if I have something appropriate to say >(which does not include the subject of Linux versus FreeBSD). In minimal >testing, the MBR-7 seemed to work fine with my BusLogic SCSI controllers. > Leonard I've been doing some experimenting with a MBR-7 on my home machine. I have had it crash my system, but I'm no longer sure that it's the fault of the jukebox. I've been able to mount cdroms on LUN's 0 through 3 and had everything work reliably. But if I mount and then access any of LUN's 4 through 6, my machine panic's in seemingly random places. -- T.T.F.N., Dave Truesdell Wombat Wrestler/Software Packrat/NAS Newsmaster (truesdel@nas.nasa.gov)