Re: Pioneer 6-CD changer (DRM-6324X)

CptDondo wrote:
Jim Weisenbach wrote:
I recently found one of these at a computer recycle store (very dangerous place for my retirement account <grin>) and hooked it up to a Fedora Core 1 system.

The self-test indicates no problems, and as soon as the OS is up and running the first tray will load automatically. If it's an audio disk then a window displays and the first track plays - I don't have a sound card on this system - that's another project... :(

What I'm trying to find out is how to control the dang thing! Anyone know what the commands are for changing from one tray to another? Or, better yet, an application that will give me all the options in one window?


ISTR that you had to scan all of them every time, and that they showed up as 6 separate drives??? I used to have one, and it always worked with a lot of clanking.

There was something about "scan all LUNs" or something like that which would make the system scan all the CDs. I may be getting confused with SCSI stuff but it was something similar.

According to the specs, the Pioneer unit in question *is* a SCSI CD-ROM changer and uses multiple LUNs, so the above suggestion sounds right.

AFAIK, most distro-supplied kernels do *not* probe all SCSI LUNs, so the OP will likely need to build (or find) a kernel with the option CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN turned on.
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