Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 15:23:31 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: S?ren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.dk> Cc: FreeBSD hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Multi CD CDROM drive support added to current Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971029152151.9219F-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199710292212.XAA00392@sos.freebsd.dk>
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One modification you might consider is an interlock, where once it has accepted a command for one drive, it only queues (and doesn't execute) commands for the other drives for some period (e.g. 2 seconds) and then swap, julian On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, S?ren Schmidt wrote: > For those that dont read the commit logs: > > First cut at supporting multi-CD CDROM drives (changers). > > Very rudimentary, lots of error checks missing, but it works. > Dont do an ls on two different CD's though, it will eat your > changer mechanism for lunch :), this clearly needs some more > thought. Until then this will enable those with changers to > mount their multible CD's and doing "sensible" work.... > > Thanks to Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk> for donating a drive > (a NEC CDR-C251 4x4) that makes this possible to develop. > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team > Even more code to hack -- will it ever end > .. >
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