On 26 Feb, Eric Hobbs wrote:
> I have a 4x8 IDE CDchanger in my Linux machine and when I need to mount one of
> the discs, I usually run a "eject -c <slot#>; mount /dev/cdrom" and it just
> works. The trouble is, I have no idea how the CDChanger/VolumeManager in obs
> is supposed to work.
Wow. No one has ever asked me about the CD Changer support. Quite
frankly I don't even use it anymore, since using my hard drives is
easier and faster. Are you sure you want to deal with the CD Changer in
order to just get 2.4 gigs of space? (Back when I first wrote Obs, 2.4
gigs of space was significant, but not today)
> I assumed that I could load my CDs full of mp3s (and an appropriate Volume file
> on the CD) into the CD changer, modify devices.conf so that /mnt/cdrom was
> defined as a CD_CHANGER_4, mount each CD and run AddFiles.pl to fill the
> database.
So far so good.
> The database was filled accordingly, so I know that works, and it is picking up
> the correct volume label. However, the obs.log is reporting that obs cannot
> find the appropriate volume when it picks a song from the database that is on
> one of the CDs, apparently because it can't mount the CDs since there is no
> disc activity on the CD drive once obs starts up.
Hmmmm. Make sure that there is no CD mounted when you start obs. It will
do the mounting/unmounting for you. Is this an NEC disk changer? I don't
know if obs will support it -- obs uses the regular kernel disk change
ioctls to change the disk.
When obs starts up, it should cycle through all the CDs to check to see
what volumes are each of the slots. I take it this isn't happening, huh?
Can you post your obs.conf and devices.conf files?
> So how is the CD Changer support supposed to work? What am I missing? Other
> than the CD changer problem, obs looks *incredible*! I'll be the envy of all
> my geek friends if I can pull this off!
You're really close. Also, check to make sure that you have a cache
directory on the hard drive set up. The files are never played directly
from the CDs -- they will always get cached to the hard drive..
--ruaok Freezerburn! All else is only icing. -- Soul Coughing
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