Re: CD Jukeboxes (fwd)

Hugo Van den Berg (hbe@cypres.nl)
Sat, 8 Feb 1997 15:25:02 +0100 ()


On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Hugo Van den Berg wrote:

You wrote:

> In ic.ml.linux.kernel you write:
>
> >On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> >> > I think this should not be limited to SCSI CD changers. There are also
> >> > (E)IDE CD changers, tape changers, worm changers etc. which would benefit
> >> > from such a mechanism.
> >>
> >> It seems sensible to map the IDE cdrom changes to "partitions" - ie
> >>
> >> /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3 ...
> >>
> >> etc. and auto switch in the driver.
>
> >Exactly my idea. There is a separate project that works on this, they have
> >a web page and everything. I've tried to contact them, but have not had
> >replies so far.
>
> Cool. Could you please tell me the URL?

Yep, it's http://orion.it.luc.edu/~bgallia/cdrom.html

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