On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 23:27 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> ------------------------------ > Message: 6 > Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:36:52 +0100 > From: S?ren Schmidt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: ATAPI CD changers anybody ? > Seems I lost my lonely ATAPI CDROM with built in changer to the > eternal HW scrapyards, let it rest in peace :) > Finding a new one seems difficult so I thought I'd ask around > how many still has one of these ? > I ask because the support code for those seem to have suffered > bitrot to the degree that it most likely hasn't worked on > -current (maybe even 5.x) for a long time, but alas I cant test > that. > Now, since it seems that such devices are no longer made, and > newer really caught on, I need some good reasons to keep the > (broken) support in there. My own opinion since HD capacity is getting larger and larger is that unless you have a large amount of CDs that you need to rotate in and out - and if there are many it would constantly be reloading the changer - is to make images of all the CDs you need to access, then run vnconfig to set up mount points, and access the as local file systems? IT surely is a lot faster. You could mount 10 CD images this way and only use up 6GB space and with 500GB HDs coming in at $399 [I saw local ads for that last week] it could be cheaper than trying to find a changer. > End of freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 97, Issue 2 -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
