From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 19 11:39:11 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA29907 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 11:39:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from gateway.net.hk (john@gateway.hk.linkage.net [202.76.7.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA29902 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 11:39:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from john@localhost) by gateway.net.hk (8.6.12/8.6.9) id DAA16797; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 03:35:19 +0800 Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 03:35:18 +0800 (HKT) From: John Beukema To: FreeBSD hackers Subject: Re: CD-Rom changes with BSDI? (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Can I expect the same under fbsd? jbeukema ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 19:53:03 -0800 From: Greg Shenaut To: sonet!bsdi.com!bsdi-users@ucdavis.edu Subject: Re: CD-Rom changes with BSDI? In message , John Antypas quoth: > >Subject says it all. > >I purchased a MBR-7 CD-Rom changer from Disk Drive Depot in the Baay Area. >For $129, if it only worked under Dos and Windows, I figured I couldn't >go wrong. Sure enough, it created seven drives under Dos. > >However, looking at it closely, what it did was create a drive of the >form: > > target 4 lun 0 (Cd-rom #0) > lun 1 (Cd-rom #1) > lun .. .. > lun 6 (Cd-rom #6) > >This seems like it could work nicely under BSDI. Would it not just probe >as sd2, sd3, sd4, sd5, .... sd8. > >How does BSDI handle targets vs. units, vs. "sd" style disk drives? I don't know about that drive in particular, but I have a six disk CDROM changer from Pioneer which is designed as you describe. Under BSD/OS 2.0 it works fine (it didn't work under 1.0 or 1.1), and probes exactly as you surmise. Greg