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All right. I am a bit of a Linux newbie, and am stuck. I have a Nagamich
MG-5.16 5-Disc CD Changer.

After installation, it sees only 1 drive. I cannot get the multiple CD's
working, and cannot figure out what to do from here.

If anyone has made this work, help would be appreciated.

Joe

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 03:44:35 -0400, Joseph M LaVigne wrote:

> All right. I am a bit of a Linux newbie, and am stuck. I have a
> Nagamich MG-5.16 5-Disc CD Changer.
>
> After installation, it sees only 1 drive. I cannot get the multiple
> CD's working, and cannot figure out what to do from here.
>
> If anyone has made this work, help would be appreciated.

You need to compile your own custom kernel and modules. The section you
need to modify is the Device Drivers-->SCSI device support and add support
for the CD-Changer (Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device).

For this you will need to have the kernel source package installed for the
kernel your currently running (hint;$ uname -r). Depending on which kernel
your running you need to install either the kernel-source or the
kernel-sourcecode RPM package, for example;

The default FC2 kernel is kernel-2.6.5-1.358 and the kernel source package
name is; kernel-source-2.6.5-1.358.i386.rpm

The latest FC2 kernel is kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.3 and the kernel source
package name is; kernel-sourcecode-2.6.6-1.435.2.3.noarch.rpm


Read/review and follow the advice here on building your own kernel before
you begin;

http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/K...ild-HOWTO.html

A bit older but still applies to Red Hat /Fedora kernel building, it's a
good idea to read [get an overview of what to expect] and follow this
advice somewhat [make install];

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...om-kernel.html

The hint I gave you in detail is from either the console or an xterm
session type 'uname -r' without the quotes to find out which kernel your
running.


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On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 19:03:16 +0000, Lenard wrote:

> You need to compile your own custom kernel and modules. The section you
> need to modify is the Device Drivers-->SCSI device support and add support
> for the CD-Changer (Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device).

Wow. took me quite a while to get it right, and many re-compiles with
slightly different options, but I finally got it working. The directions
at the Redhat site were almost perfect, and now, I can re-compile the
kernel in my sleep... ;-)

Thank you very much for your help. It is nice to have all of my hardware
working nice together (and as an added bonus, I stripped out a lot of
overhead).

Joe