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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
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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.