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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!baron.netcom.net.uk!netcom.net.uk!server3.netnews.ja.net!qmw!news From: Dominic Froud <dom@dominic.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Improvemonts with 2.2.2 - Question about cdrom disk changers Date: 08 Jul 1997 15:17:58 +0100 Organization: Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, UK Lines: 13 Message-ID: <ok467ulzkyx.fsf@dominic.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> References: <5pnn6e$a6p@idiom.com> <ok4bu4dzner.fsf@dominic.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dominic.dcs.qmw.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.96) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.2.40/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44105 Dominic Froud <dom@dominic.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> writes: > For example, if you had a 6-disc cartridge player and you referenced > each disc as wcd0s0c, wcd0s1c, .., wcd0s5c, you would have to remember > to keep the discs in the same order in the cartridge every time you > used the machine (or else the fstab mappings would put the wrong data > in the wrong places)! My god, what was I thinking...? Of course you can't access more than ONE disc at any one time anyway! (Or can you...? :) Dominic