Re: ATAPI CD changers anybody ?

From: Bill Vermillion (bv_at_wjv.com)
Date: 01/25/05

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    On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 23:27 in freebsd-hackers-request@freebsd.org:

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    > Message: 6
    > Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:36:52 +0100
    > From: S?ren Schmidt<sos@DeepCore.dk>
    > Subject: ATAPI CD changers anybody ?

    > Seems I lost my lonely ATAPI CDROM with built in changer to the
    > eternal HW scrapyards, let it rest in peace :)

    > Finding a new one seems difficult so I thought I'd ask around
    > how many still has one of these ?

    > I ask because the support code for those seem to have suffered
    > bitrot to the degree that it most likely hasn't worked on
    > -current (maybe even 5.x) for a long time, but alas I cant test
    > that.

    > Now, since it seems that such devices are no longer made, and
    > newer really caught on, I need some good reasons to keep the
    > (broken) support in there.

    My own opinion since HD capacity is getting larger and larger is
    that unless you have a large amount of CDs that you need to rotate
    in and out - and if there are many it would constantly be reloading
    the changer - is to make images of all the CDs you need to
    access, then run vnconfig to set up mount points, and access
    the as local file systems? IT surely is a lot faster.

    You could mount 10 CD images this way and only use up 6GB space
    and with 500GB HDs coming in at $399 [I saw local ads for that last
    week] it could be cheaper than trying to find a changer.

    > End of freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 97, Issue 2 

    -- 
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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