SCSI CD cabinets

[Tom Peters]

At 03:45 AM 12/31/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>On 12/31/06, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
>>I'm just sorry that I gave away my old 7 CD unit.
>
>I have something like that I was thinking about digging out... it's a
>table-top unit, with a 2X drive and a 7-disc internal changer.  I was
>contemplating seeing if I could replace the transport with a SCSI
>DVD-ROM unit just for fun, as 7 CDs isn't all that interesting.

I still have this slick Nakamichi 7 disk scsi CD changer with audio outputs 
on the back. Something like MBR-7?? I wish I had a killer application for 
it. I wonder if it has enough front panel control to use it as an audio CD 
player without connecting to the scsi bus at all-- something like I'm doing 
with my NEC Multispin 6x caddy type CD drive. I have it connected to my 
stereo, via coax digital audio out. I only have 4 or 5 caddies laying 
around though.

>As for the OP's question, if _I_ had a 7 *transport* box, I'd consider
>replacing most or all of the transports with SCSI DVD-ROMs for a
>decent amount of archival storage readback.  I could back interesting
>things up to DVD-R on a single writer, then keep the most important
>stuff available for readback.  It's not as much storage as even a
>moderate-sized RAID array, but it isn't likely to suffer from
>headcrashes, etc.
>
>-ethan


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