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tlang@freeway.DIALix.oz.au (Tony Langdon) wrote:

>It's 08 Feb 96  15:16,
>We'll return to suter@fawlty8.eng.monash.edu.au and All's
>discussion of Juke boxes (CD)

> su> Anyone have any words of wisdom/practical experience
> su> they can share in regards to setting a Linux box
> su> up with a CD jukebox.

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> su> general info - how does the system appear
> su> to the user - for a 7 CD do you
> su> have 7 different mount points is
> su> your file system

>Yes, if I wanted to use all 7 CDs, there's 7 mount points in the fs.
I have setup a similar system using s Pioneer with 6 CDS.
Complie the kernel to support Multiple LUNs
It work ok with multi mount points
eg 
/cdroms/cdrom0
/cdroms/cdrom1
/cdroms/cdrom2 .. etc

> su> - about how quickly does it move from one
> su> CD to the next

>I'd have to time it (which I can do from the DOS machine.  Hang on. :-)

>Seems to be about 4-5 seconds to change CDs

After mount the cdroms a cd to the directory will switch the crom in
the drive.

> su> As you may guess, I don't have any experience with any juke boxes
> su> under any operating system so almost all information
> su> is potentially useful at this stage.
> su> regards

>I've got the CD7 to run well here under Linux.  Seems to be quite good.
>However, some drives like the CD7 need to have the boot parameter
>max_scsi_luns=7, since each CD uses a separate lun.  Without this
>parameter (either in /etc/lilo.conf or at the boot: prompt), you'll only
>be able to access CD no 1, regardless of which CD you attempt to access.
See above
>According to literature I have, there may be problems when 2 users
>attempt to access a CD at the same time, but I haven't investigated this
>as yet...
I havn't tried to do this but as linux supports more than one person
it should work ok.. first in best dressed
..
Samba works OK too..
Good luck
kevin