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Re: Looking for CD changer that works with Linux.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sheldon E. Newhouse)
Tue Nov 5 02:00:17 1996

Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 23:32:04 -0500
From: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <327EA35F.54D700F6@kodak.com>
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Cole Jones writes:
 > > I'm using a Mountain Quad-Speed 7-Disc CD Changer (MCD-1040 SCSI) and it
 > > works quite well.  I believe Nakamichi makes a similar CD Changer as
 > > well.
 > > 
 > > As long as you have a CD in a particular tray and you have an entry in
 > > your '/etc/fstab', the CD should be mounted at boot-up.  As you change
 > > from one mount directory to the next, the associated CD is loaded.
 > 
 > What are the entries in your fstab file for the cd's? 
 > 
 > TIA,
 > 
 > -sen
 > 
 > ------------
 > Sheldon,
 > Below is my /etc/fstab file.  Make sure when you compile your kernel
 > that you select the option to "Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device".  If
 > you use 'make xconfig' this option is under 'SCSI support'.
 > 
 > Hope this helps!
 > 
 > #
 > # /etc/fstab
 > #
 > # You should be using fstool (control-panel) to edit this!
 > #
 > # <device>    <mountpoint>   <filesystemtype> <options> <dump>
 > <fsckorder>
 > 
 > /dev/hda5   /           ext2    defaults 1 1
 > /dev/scd0   /mnt/cd1    iso9660 defaults,ro 0 0
 > /dev/scd1   /mnt/cd2    iso9660 defaults,ro 0 0        
 > /dev/scd2   /mnt/cd3    iso9660 defaults,ro 0 0
 > /dev/scd3   /mnt/cd4    iso9660 defaults,ro 0 0
 > /dev/scd4   /mnt/cd5    iso9660 defaults,ro 0 0
 > /dev/scd5   /mnt/cd6    iso9660 defaults,ro 0 0
 > /dev/scd6   /mnt/cd7    iso9660 defaults,ro 0 0
 > /dev/fd0    /mnt/floppy ext2    noauto 0 0
 > /dev/hda1   none         ignore 0 0 0
 > /dev/hda2   none         ignore 0 0 0
 > /dev/hda3   none         ignore 0 0 0
 > /dev/hda4   none         ignore 0 0 0
 > /dev/hdb1   none         ignore 0 0 0
 > 
 > none        /proc        proc   defaults
 > Well, this may be the first good reason I've seen to spend the extra
bucks for a scsi cdrom drive.

Anyone know how to do this with an ide cdrom?

TIA,
 -sen


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