From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 30 08:30:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA18143 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 08:30:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA18136; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 08:30:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.65] by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0xQxTz-0004oY-00; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 08:30:07 -0800 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA05839; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 08:29:50 -0800 Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 08:29:50 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: CD-ROM changer, mount : Device not configured To: Nadav Eiron cc: Miroslav Kes , freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <34589E91.5102@barcode.co.il> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Miroslav Kes wrote: > That a CD changer is not supported this way. Just today preliminary > support for CD changers went into FreeBSD 3.0-current. 2.2.2R has not > support for interfacing a CD changer as multiple standard CD. What the > machine sees is a single drive and, if you're lucky, the changer > mechanism. You may be able to use raw SCSI commands to activate the > changer and mount/umount the disks manually, but other than that, or the > new code in 3.0-current, CD changers are not supported, at least AFAIK. There must be some support for them - I've been using a Nakamichi MBR-7 with no problems. (That's the old 7 disk changer.) I don't see anything different in my config. Here's the relevant portion of my dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-1997 FreeBSD Inc. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE #0: Tue Aug 12 12:32:39 PDT 1997 root@phoenix.volant.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/PHOENIX CPU: AMD Am5x86 Write-Through (486-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x4e4 Stepping=4 Features=0x1 real memory = 41943040 (40960K bytes) avail memory = 38285312 (37388K bytes) Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: chip0 rev 4 on pci0:0 ncr0 rev 2 int a irq 9 on pci0:1 ncr0 waiting for scsi devices to settle (ncr0:0:0): "IBM DORS-32160 S82C" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd0(ncr0:0:0): Direct-Access sd0(ncr0:0:0): 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 8) 2063MB (4226725 512 byte sectors) (ncr0:1:0): "SEAGATE ST15230N 0168" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd1(ncr0:1:0): Direct-Access sd1(ncr0:1:0): 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 8) 4095MB (8386733 512 byte sectors) (ncr0:5:0): "EXABYTE EXB-8505AXBANXS1 07J0" type 1 removable SCSI 2 st0(ncr0:5:0): Sequential-Access st0(ncr0:5:0): 5.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 8) density code 0x8c, drive empty (ncr0:6:0): "NRC MBR-7 110" type 5 removable SCSI 2 cd0(ncr0:6:0): CD-ROM cd0(ncr0:6:0): asynchronous. cd present [328355 x 2048 byte records] (ncr0:6:1): "NRC MBR-7 110" type 5 removable SCSI 2 cd1(ncr0:6:1): CD-ROM can't get the size (ncr0:6:2): "NRC MBR-7 110" type 5 removable SCSI 2 cd2(ncr0:6:2): CD-ROM cd present [318367 x 2048 byte records] (ncr0:6:3): "NRC MBR-7 110" type 5 removable SCSI 2 cd3(ncr0:6:3): CD-ROM cd present [305507 x 2048 byte records] (ncr0:6:4): "NRC MBR-7 110" type 5 removable SCSI 2 cd4(ncr0:6:4): CD-ROM cd present [295185 x 2048 byte records] (ncr0:6:5): "NRC MBR-7 110" type 5 removable SCSI 2 cd5(ncr0:6:5): CD-ROM cd present [301709 x 2048 byte records] (ncr0:6:6): "NRC MBR-7 110" type 5 removable SCSI 2 cd6(ncr0:6:6): CD-ROM cd present [17710 x 2048 byte records] -Pat