Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 6 Feb 1997 08:13:26 -0700 | From | (Erik Andersen) | Subject | Re: CD Jukeboxes |
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On Feb 5, 1997, Alan Cox wrote: > > I think this should not be limited to SCSI CD changers. There are also > > (E)IDE CD changers, tape changers, worm changers etc. which would benefit > > from such a mechanism. > > It seems sensible to map the IDE cdrom changes to "partitions" - ie > > /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3 ... > > etc. and auto switch in the driver. > > Alan
Alan, As the ide cdrom maintainer, and the one who added all the ide cdrom changer support for the 2.1.x kernels (some large changes), I'd be glad to work on this, but I have no idea how to get started. How would I map each slot to a different device? I have already added code that lets you easily detect how many slots are available, and which slots have CDs in them, and which slot is the current slot, etc... How does one then map each slot to a different "partition"? Doing such things is quite far out from the areas I am experienced in. If anybody does know how to do this, and wants to help out, I am more than open to help.
-Erik
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