Messages in this thread | | | From | Jeroen Massar <> | Subject | Re: /dev/changer | Date | Fri, 9 Apr 1999 10:29:13 +0200 |
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On 30 Mar 1999, Dennis Moore wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 11:03:24AM +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote: > > > Currently we only have the following problems: > > - 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'll work on something like a timer or alike (see the source-code) which > > will fix this by simply only allowing a slotchange every n seconds and > > thus effectivly allowing datatransfer from/to that slot for that time. > > while this one is for atapi/ide(?), my scsi changer faces this same > problem. not only does it constantly swap, it also pegs the cpu. are there > any plans to resolve this in the scsi drivers?
I am busy with it :)
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