[geeks] SCSI for PowerBooks?

[Mike Parson]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:19:42PM +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:07:53 -0500
> Matthew Braun <geeks at leydenjar.com> wrote:
> 
>> I've looked into SCSI->Firewire bridges,

> USB(2) to SCSI?

The USB->SCSI converters I've seen (From Adaptec and Iomega) don't do
multiple LUNs, so things like jukeboxes and changers tend to be out of
the question.

> Why not connect some *ix machine to the jukebox, export a spool disk via
> network to the powerbook, rip raw pcm data from the CDs to the spool
> disk with the *ix machine and do the pcm to mp3 encoding on the
> powerbook?

That's prolly what I would do, hook it up to a *nix box of some sort,
then use distmp3 to let as many boxes as I can hook up handle the
wav/pcm->mp3 part.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org