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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!news.ci.com.au!wabbit.its.uow.edu.au!news.nsw.CSIRO.AU!actcsiro!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news.service.uci.edu!news.cccd.edu!usenet From: mpeer@cccd.edu (Michael S. Peer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CDROM changers, etc Date: 24 Feb 1996 00:45:58 GMT Organization: Golden West College Lines: 39 Message-ID: <4gln46$1bb@spock.dis.cccd.edu> References: <DMHsAG.IyE@sysadm.physics.uiowa.edu> <4gb182$d34@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: mpeer.csc.gwc.cccd.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 In article <4gb182$d34@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de says... > >ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu (Larry Granroth) writes: > >> First off, I'm looking for information on using the /dev/ch0 device >> for controlling a Pioneer DRM-1804X CDROM changer. I've found ioctl ... > >The `ch' driver is for tape changer devices. CDROM changers should be >handled by the regular `cd' driver. > >You should get it going well, except that systems up to 2.1R had a >minor bug causing a panic when accessing > 6 drives. Here's the fix >from -current: > ... >-- >cheers, J"org > >joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE >Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > I am looking to use Nakamichi 7 disk cd changer. I tried it on FreeBSD 2.1.0R and it only finds the first two. I thought that there wasn't any problem, could my problem be associated with 2.1.0R and I need to upgrade to 2.2-current. Thanks You seem to pounded with lots of questions, all the time. T H A N K S alot, from people like me still learning all this stuff.