Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Mar 1999 13:57:58 -0600 | From | "Thomas E. Dodd /CSDC" <> | Subject | Re: /dev/changer |
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Jeroen Massar wrote: > > Description > ~~~~~~~~~~~ > /dev/changer will allow you to mount all the cd's in your changer(s) at once. > thus avoiding the hassle with scripts or other custom software. >
Finally :) I was just about to get a new drive because the changer was such a hassle to change slots on!
I look at this myself and got nowhere.
Has this been tested with the UDMA patch? (It will be soon :)
> - It's a changer so you technically CAN'T access two slots at the same time. > Thus whenever you spool two movies, one from slot 0 and the other from slot 3 > the /dev/changer code will keep swapping between them every request. It'll > get very slow because of this.
I forget, what happens in M$ ? I tried accessing 2 disks at one time once or twice, but that was a while back. I've since dropped M$ except for a remote client at work :)
-Thomas
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