Re: multi-tray IDE CDrom drives
Norbert Veber wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 07:08:59AM -0500, tko@westgac3.dragon.com wrote:
> > Picked up a NEC 4 tray IDE CDrom drive. Debian sees the base tray (1 of 4).
> > How does one access the other 3 trays? It would be cool to be able to load
> > binary and source disks into the same drive and have access to both (probably
> > with different mounting points) 8-)
>
> yes it would be, but this is not supported by the kernel, what you can do is
> mount one tray at a time, I use ascdc (for X, actually it was made for
> afterstep's wharf) to change between trays, there are also some command line
> utilities, but I really can't remember their names.. :) Infact, I can't
> remember the last time I used my cdrom at all, let alone the multiple
> trays..
Command line program that changes CD's is EJECT.
use with -c ?
like 'eject -c 0' for the first disk and 'eject -c 3' for the fourth.
I have the NEC and it works fine but it doesn't work for my
panasonic.
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