Re: Re: Is ide-scsi + scsi-cdrom a replacement for ide-cdrom?
Jens Benecke (jens@pinguin.conetix.de)
Wed, 29 Sep 1999 23:44:28 +0200
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 07:35:54PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29 1999, Zygo Blaxell wrote:
> > I'm more interested in things that the IDE CD driver can do that
> > IDE-SCSI + SCSI-CDROM can't. I am tempted to create a kernel binary,
> > for possible distribution to N people on CD, that contains the IDE-SCSI
> > emulation layer and SCSI CD-ROM support _instead of_ IDE-CDROM support.
> > This makes IDE CD-R drivers work, among other things.
> In upcoming kernels, changer support will work equally well with ATAPI,
> SCSI and IDE-SCSI so that should not be an issue. ide-cd contains work
> arounds for faulty hardware that you will miss. I think the best solution
> would be a setup with both ide-scsi and ide-cd, running ordinary drives
> with ide-cd and cd-r/w with ide-scsi.
How far is the IDE changer code? Can I put a couple (four) IDE CD changers
into my server so that it can act as CD jukebox, and this works? The disks
will be (more or less) all mounted, or probably I will configure autofs. It
would be nice if someone could patch autofs so that it mounts all CDs under
/autofs/$CDROM_LABEL, any idea about this?
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