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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: NAKAMICHI cdrom changer
To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault)
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 21:08:17 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199512220237.VAA27382@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Dec 21, 95 09:37:38 pm
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> > Peter Defualt wrote:
> 
> Who is that guy?
> 
> > 	this drive costs $129 at CSC (408-734-disk).  they are selling a 
> > Nakamichi scsi-ii fast, 2x, 256kB buffer unit.

Is that the 7-disk changer???  For $129?

> Hellmuth's drive (which survived 10 hours of "ls -R > /dev/null"
> on seven disks with mounting and unmounting going on) is a "Nakamichi
> MBR-7" double speed drive with a 64kb buffer.  I'm using it with
> pretty-darn-close to 2.1R with the aha1542c.  It is likely that
> the unit you are looking at will work the same.
> 
> > 	but will it work????   i want to use it with an ncr53c810 that 
> > built into my asus sp3g motherboard.
> > 
> > 	in 2.1.0-R /sys/pci/ncr.c: "#define MAX_LUN     (1)"  gack!!!
> 
> I don't know about this and I don't have the source on line here.

I have a friend who recently picked up the 4x 7-CD version of this unit, I
could conceivably borrow it for a day or two and toss it on my Web server
box (SP3G) to see if it works.

... Joe

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