Re: Re: Re: Is ide-scsi + scsi-cdrom a replacement for ide-cdrom?

Jens Axboe (axboe@image.dk)
Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:59:07 +0200

On Fri, Oct 01 1999, Jens Benecke wrote:
> > > How far is the IDE changer code? Can I put a couple (four) IDE CD
> > > changers into my server so that it can act as CD jukebox, and this
> > > works? The disks will be (more or less) all mounted, or probably I will
> > > configure autofs. It would be nice if someone could patch autofs so
> > > that it mounts all CDs under /autofs/$CDROM_LABEL, any idea about this?
> > I haven't worked that much with changers, but I see nothing wrong with
> > the configuration. If you need all trays mounted at the same time, the
> > /dev/changer patch would probably come in handy. I don't know how well it
>
> Where can I find about this patch?

The URL seems to be broken at the moment, but I think it is
http://unfix.org/projects/changer. Or just try unfix.org and
click your way in there.

> > works in real life (one could easily imagine the scenario where all the
> > time would be spent changing discs and no real work would get done).
> > You could also go for a big SCSI changer.
>
> The price is the problem. If I set up an old 486 with a IDE hard disk and
> four times six CDROM slots, this will come much much cheaper than buying
> one of those jukeboxes. You can get a six-times IDE changer for EUR 70.
> SCSI changers start at EUR 150.

Yes, SCSI changers are not cheap!

-- 
*  Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk>
*  Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
*  http://www.kernel.dk


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