ATAPI CD changers anybody ?

[Søren Schmidt]

First thanks to all those that responded to this inquiry, it has given 
me a pointer to how wanted this is.

Chris Faulhaber wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 05:36:52PM +0100, S?ren 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 two of these, a 4x and 6x:
> 
> acd0-3: CDROM with 4 CD changer <NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:251> at ata1-master PIO3
> 
> I still use one under 4.x but since they will not read many newer
> CDR's and CDRW's their usefulness is waning.

Exactly, and it is much cheaper and ALOT faster to copy those CD images 
to a harddisk and be doen with it.

> If you would like one in order to continue supporting them, send
> me your address and I will have one shipped.

Thanks! I'll first decide if I want to keep the support alive for 6.0, 
and I'll get back to those with these drives if/when I need to get it 
tested etc...

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-Søren