Lotus 123 books, IPC Peripherals CD changer....

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Thu Jun 5 15:53:00 2003

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, David Woyciesjes wrote:

> Just grabbed these out of a trash pile here in the hallways of the Yale
> School of Med...

> - IPC Peripherals MCD-1040 4X 7 disc CD changer library.
>
> I grabbed the books, figuring someone here would want them. As for the
> CD changer, does anyone know/have about special drivers for the beastie,
> or should work as a standard SCSI CD drive?

I'm not familiar with that exact model of cdrom changer, but I have a
number of NEC and Pioneer units. All of the SCSI cdrom changers I've used
have a device id for the drive itself, and a lun for each of the discs.
Most OS have no trouble assigning each lun as a drive, but it can get
tricky under DOS, depending on the host adapter's software. The changer
should automatically switch discs as you access the different luns.

What does the unit look like? My NEC changers have a row of 7 buttons
across the front for loading each of the 7 discs, while my Pioneer drives
use a 6 disc magazine. (I'm always happy to give other Pioneer changers a
home too, if anyone here needs to get rid of any.) One thing about the
Pioneer drives and their magazine, is that if you ever need to ship or
transport those units, you *must* remove the magazine. If you don't, one
of the 6 shelves will swing out and damage the pickup. I've got a couple
drives with that kind of damage currently waiting for me to make time to
repair them.

-Toth
Received on Thu Jun 05 2003 - 15:53:00 BST

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