ATAPI CD changers anybody ?

Bernd Walter ticso at cicely12.cicely.de
Mon Jan 24 09:04:27 PST 2005


On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 05:36:52PM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote:
> 
> 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.

I have an Alps DC544C here, currently not vuilt into to any machine.
Didn't know if it was ever supported as a changer - it has some buttons
to switch media.
Don't think there is much sense these days in using such a device.

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