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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: CD Jukebox
Date: 9 Aug 1996 20:31:58 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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"J. Wagner" <oztech@ee.washington.edu> wrote:
> Could anyone tell me how to create block device for Mountain 7 CDROM
> changer?
MAKEDEV cd{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}
(I think it doesn't accept digits > 9 by default.)
> I have tried to use mknod command; however, FreeBSD still won't mount
> it.
> (kernel option ch0 is enabled, and Kernel does see the CDROM Jukebox as
> cd2)
1) The `ch' device is wrong, it only applies to tape roboters.
2) If it only sees cd2 (as opposed to cd2 through cd8), you need a
`quirk' record in /sys/scsi/scsiconf.c, in order to enable multiple
LUN support for your device. Look at the entry for the NBR-7
CD changer as a template.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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