Re: CD ROM Robot

["Dirk Terrell" <terrell@boulder.swri.edu>]

On Thu, 03 Oct 2002 14:02:14 -0500, Tom Droege wrote:

>So really all I want to be able to do is to read the contents of a selected 
>CD to hard disk under Linux.  That may be a lot, but it may also not be so bad.

I second Ron's advice about using mtx to control the changer if Linux
recognizes the changer as such. So you'd have a SCSI device for the
change (like /dev/sgb) and then the drives would just show up as SCSI
CD drives. Then you just do things like, e.g.

mtx -f /dev/sgb load 23

to load disk 23. And 

mtx -f /dev/sgb unload

to unload the disk. (You can set the CHANGER environment variable
appropriately to avoid having to do the "-f /dev/sgb" part every time
you do an mtx command.) It may or may not work with your jukebox but
it's pretty easy to try.

Dirk