Re: Re: Re: Is ide-scsi + scsi-cdrom a replacement for ide-cdrom?
Jens Benecke (jens@pinguin.conetix.de)
Fri, 1 Oct 1999 20:52:51 +0200
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 12:00:45AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29 1999, Jens Benecke wrote:
> > 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?
> I haven't worked that much with changers, but I see nothing wrong with
> the configuration. If you need all trays mounted at the same time, the
> /dev/changer patch would probably come in handy. I don't know how well it
Where can I find about this patch?
> works in real life (one could easily imagine the scenario where all the
> time would be spent changing discs and no real work would get done).
> You could also go for a big SCSI changer.
The price is the problem. If I set up an old 486 with a IDE hard disk and
four times six CDROM slots, this will come much much cheaper than buying
one of those jukeboxes. You can get a six-times IDE changer for EUR 70.
SCSI changers start at EUR 150.
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