RE: IDE CD Jukebox (Still)

[Charles Galpin <cgalpin lighthouse-software com>]

I think I'm coming into this thread a bit late, but you need the eject rpm.This
will include the man page.

I have a little IDE 4 cd changer that works perfectly. I use the following
script to select CDs, and have sym links to it called cd1, cd2, cd3,and cd4.
Also not that the mount point /mnt/cdrom2 is not standard.

hth
charles


#!/bin/sh

# selects and mounts the correct CD slot based on
# the name of the executable cd1, c2, cd3, cd4

# default to cd1
slot=0

case "$0" in
  *cd1)
        slot=0
        ;;
  *cd2)
        slot=1
        ;;
  *cd3)
        slot=2
        ;;
  *cd4)
        slot=3
        ;;
esac

echo "one moment please..."

# unmount it if it's mounted already
if ( grep /etc/mtab -e /mnt/cdrom2 -q ); then
      umount /mnt/cdrom2
      echo "cdrom unmounted";
fi

eject -c $slot /dev/cdrom2      # select the  slot

mount /dev/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2   # mount it




On 27-Feb-99 Tom Burke wrote:
> Nakamichi MJ-5.16
>     5 CD changer
> 
>>From the HOWTO:
> 
> EIDE/ATAPI multi-disc changers are also available. The 2.0 kernel has
>   rudimentary support for some drives using the CDROM_SELECT_DISC ioctl
>   function. The IDE-CD kernel driver documentation file includes source
>   code for a program to select changer slots, or you can use a recent
>   version of the eject program described earlier.
> 
> Aside from some help that I could certainly use, can someone point me
> to the doc file described above?
> 
> Also, "man eject" doesn't work :(