From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Jan 3 11:51:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA10575 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 11:51:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA10568 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 11:51:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id UAA18099 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 20:51:19 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA18390 for freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 20:51:18 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id UAA15816; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 20:34:43 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 20:34:43 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ideas on CD changers sought References: <199701021747.SAA08128@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199701022154.QAA23215@hda.hda.com> <32CD5787.59E2B600@whistle.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <32CD5787.59E2B600@whistle.com>; from Julian Elischer on Jan 3, 1997 11:01:27 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Julian Elischer wrote: > > Is there any way to learn about the medium changing ability other than > > a hard-coded list of devices that are known to do it? > > if a CD is on an LUN other than 0 it should be assumed to be a CD > changer, Hmm, alas, too many CD drives are broken and respond to LUNs > 0 despite of not being changers. :-( Remember, we've recently turned the default to only probe for one LUN on `readonly' devices. I was hoping for a better indication. Sigh. -- 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. ;-)