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From: Dominic Froud <dom@dominic.dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Improvemonts with 2.2.2 - Question about cdrom disk changers
Date: 08 Jul 1997 15:17:58 +0100
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Dominic Froud <dom@dominic.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> writes:
> For example, if you had a 6-disc cartridge player and you referenced
> each disc as wcd0s0c, wcd0s1c, .., wcd0s5c, you would have to remember
> to keep the discs in the same order in the cartridge every time you
> used the machine (or else the fstab mappings would put the wrong data
> in the wrong places)!

My god, what was I thinking...? Of course you can't access more than
ONE disc at any one time anyway! 

(Or can you...? :)

Dominic