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Re: SCSI Changer Driver

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerd Knorr)
Tue Sep 22 18:31:13 1998

From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@goldbach.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: 	Tue, 22 Sep 1998 19:12:34 +0200
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
To: "Allison, Bob (LCI)" <bob.d.allison@qwest.net>

In lists.linux.scsi you write:

>I "inherited" a MO jukebox.  I need to write a driver to make the jukebox's
>robot insert and remove disks.  I was wondering if anyone has written a
>driver for a jukebox robot.

http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~kraxel/linux/scsi-changer-0.12.tar.gz

>My ideal solution would be a series of devices called /dev/mo/xxy, where xx
>is the disk number and y is the side (a or b).  Accessing the mo device
>would then cause the jukebox robot to insert the disk in the drive; then the
>device would act just like /dev/sdc (hopefully including partition tables).

With autofs you come close.

   Gerd

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