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From: ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu (Larry Granroth)
Subject: Re: CDROM Changers
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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 00:42:20 GMT
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David E. O'Brien (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu) wrote:
: 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.
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?
-Larry
larry-granroth@uiowa.edu