Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 18:10:54 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ideas on CD changers sought Message-ID: <199701032310.SAA24988@hda.hda.com> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970103203443.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Jan 3, 97 08:34:43 pm"
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> 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. Only if people actually used the broken LUNS - that is, they both left the CD and kernel setup so that it responded to multiple luns and then mounted something on CD-other-than-0. I can see it now: "INSERT CDROM FOR CD2 AND HIT THE ENTER KEY: " -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936
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