First, I made myself a big home fileserver some time ago. I was already planning to rip my collection of over 500 cd’s.
serge@hydargos:~$ df -h | grep md1
/dev/md1 671G 174G 498G 26% /DATA
My previous file server was decommissioned. I still need to clean the data files, but besides some basic spare space
serge@goldorak:~$ df -h | grep DATA
/dev/md7 66G 64G 1.8G 98% /DATA
it also has a scsi card with some goodies attached.
serge@goldorak:~$ dmesg | grep scsi
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 5
Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0, type 5
Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0, type 5
Attached scsi generic sg3 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 1, type 5
Attached scsi generic sg4 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 2, type 5
Attached scsi generic sg5 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 3, type 5
Attached scsi generic sg6 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 4, type 5
Attached scsi generic sg7 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 5, type 5
Attached scsi generic sg8 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 6, type 5
Attached scsi generic sg9 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0, type 5
Attached scsi generic sg10 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 1, type 5
Attached scsi generic sg11 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 2, type 5
Attached scsi generic sg12 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 3, type 5
Attached scsi generic sg13 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 4, type 5
Attached scsi generic sg14 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 5, type 5
Attached scsi generic sg15 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 6, type 5
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg16 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
SCSI id 0 and 1 are two plain SCSI cdrom (CD-R and CDRW) drives I bought around 1999. SCSI id 5 and 6 two very old cdrom changers (around 1995) which can handle 7 cdroms each . For some reason, now that I connected all those drives, /dev/hdb (slightly more recent ATA cdrom drive) is not recognised anymore. Well, I guess I’ll settle with loading 16 cd’s at a time 
Now on to find some way to script the whole ripping process. Testing if performance is good enough (I can settle with 1X, ripping 1 batch per 24 hours.) Testing if ripping quality is good enough with those old drives. Finding out if I’m ripping to MP3, Ogg Vorbis or a lossless format (Flac?). More study needed. Ouch.
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