[Solaris 8] mount cdrom drive

Sun Blade 150 - Solaris 8
hi,
i'm trying to access respectively to a cdrom reader and a cdrom writer ...
"cdrw -l" gave me those informations :
/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2 ... etc ... for the reader
/dev/rdsk/c1t6d0s2 ... etc ... for the writer
so i see my drives are being known by the system but the thing is i'd like to access them by something like :
/cdrom/cdrom0
and/or
/cdrom/cdrom1
thanks for help

Hello
back after a long while ... but I have the solution !
Darren, you were completely right, thanks ! I summarize if ever someone meets the same pb ...
1- normally, if the daemon "vold" is running, when inserting a CDROM in a drive, it's automatically mounted and then accessible with /cdrom/cdrom0
2- but, if "vold" is not running, it has to be launched :
/etc/init.d/volmgt start
3- if "vold" is running but you still can't access to your CDROM (it was my case !) => that means the CDROM is maybe not readable ! Actually I had a CD-RW and the drive couldn't read it. I copied the data on a normal CD-R and it worked !
thanks for help !
bye

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I have followed the Admin guide on how to export Cdrom/Dvd drive from Service Domain to Guest Domain, however once allocated to the guest domain we are unable to mount the device. Any help is appreciated.
Here are my bindings
ldm list-bindings primary
NAME STATE FLAGS CONS VCPU MEMORY UTIL UPTIME
primary active -n-cv SP 4 2G 0.8% ; 7d 18h 56m
MAC
00:14:4f:02:ca:6a
VCPU
VID PID UTIL STRAND
0 0 1.0% ; 100%
1 1 0.5% ; 100%
2 2 0.7% ; 100%
3 3 0.8% ; 100%
MAU
CPUSET
(0, 1, 2, 3)
MEMORY
RA PA SIZE
0x8000000 0x8000000 2G
VARIABLES
boot-device=/pci@780/pci@0/pci@9/scsi@0/disk@1,0:a /pci@780/pci@0/pci@9/scsi@0/disk@0,0:a
IO
DEVICE PSEUDONYM OPTIONS
pci@780 bus_a
pci@7c0 bus_b
VCC
NAME PORT-RANGE
primary-vcc0 5000-5031
CLIENT PORT
ldom3@ldom3 5002
VDS
NAME VOLUME OPTIONS DEVICE
primary-vds0 cdrom /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2
vol1 /ldom1/bootfile1
vol11 /dev/rdsk/c6t60060480000287750594534653353445d0s2
vol2 /ldom2/bootfile2
vol3 /bootpool/bootfile3
CLIENT VOLUME
vdisk0@ldom3 vol3
vdisk11@ldom3 vol11
cdrom@ldom3 cdrom
VSW
NAME MAC NET-DEV DEVICE MODE
primary-vsw0 00:14:4f:fa:c6:14 e1000g0 switch@0 prog,promisc
PEER MAC
vnet1@ldom3 00:14:4f:f9:c8:15
VCONS
NAME SERVICE PORT
SP
ldm list-bindings ldom3
root@host# ldm list-bindings ldom3
NAME STATE FLAGS CONS VCPU MEMORY UTIL UPTIME
ldom3 active -n--- 5002 4 1900M 0.1% ; 15m
MAC
00:14:4f:f8:6c:1d
VCPU
VID PID UTIL STRAND
0 4 0.3% ; 100%
1 5 0.0% ; 100%
2 6 0.0% ; 100%
3 7 0.0% ; 100%
MEMORY
RA PA SIZE
0x8000000 0x88000000 1900M
VARIABLES
keyboard-layout=UK-English
NETWORK
NAME SERVICE DEVICE MAC
vnet1 primary-vsw0@primary network@0 00:14:4f:f9:c8:15
PEER MAC
primary-vsw0@primary 00:14:4f:fa:c6:14
DISK
NAME VOLUME TOUT DEVICE SERVER
vdisk0 vol3@primary-vds0 disk@0 primary
vdisk11 vol11@primary-vds0 disk@1 primary
cdrom cdrom@primary-vds0 disk@2 primary
VCONS
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We can see the exported cdrom volume in /dev/dsk as a new device and also at the ok prompt after running devalias.
However, we need to mount this device so that we can install software in our domain. All our attempts at mounting just hang and I end up having to stop/start the whole domain. ?
Is there an easy way to mount cdroms/dvd drives in a guest domain ?
TIA

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fail to be mountable in the guest domain (e.g. application software DVDs as opposed to OS installation images).
6708257 DVD-ROM (not OS installation disk) can not mount from guest domain of LDOM 1.0.2
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mount: I/O error
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It's strange that you are getting a hang though (the reported error is an I/O error).
Are there any messages in /var/adm/message of the control domain?
What OS/patches are running on the guest and control domains (i.e is 127127-11 installed on both) ?
I've just had a thought though, exporting the DVD device as a slice instead may work
(it works for me on an ISO image but my machine is 1000s of miles away so I can't stick DVD in it
to try out)
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Mounting cdrom drives in VM Guests

I've installed the latest version of OVM (whistler) and have installed a guest OEL5.3 environment (Vail). I can mount /mnt/cdrom on Whistler but it is never recognized in Vail. I have a /dev/sdc showing on Vail but get this when I mount it:
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mount: No Medium Found.
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There is an recently filed bug where DVDs (and ISO images) which do not have a VTOC in their disk label
fail to be mountable in the guest domain (e.g. application software DVDs as opposed to OS installation images).
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# mount -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c0d1s0 /mnt
mount: I/O error
mount: cannot mount /dev/dsk/c0d1s0
It's strange that you are getting a hang though (the reported error is an I/O error).
Are there any messages in /var/adm/message of the control domain?
What OS/patches are running on the guest and control domains (i.e is 127127-11 installed on both) ?
I've just had a thought though, exporting the DVD device as a slice instead may work
(it works for me on an ISO image but my machine is 1000s of miles away so I can't stick DVD in it
to try out)
e.g. ldm add-vdsdev options=slice /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2 cdrom@primary-vds0

How to mount USB & CDROM drives from single user mode - Solaris boot disk?

Hi All,
I need to carry out ufsrestore on a single newly replaced system disk (no redundancy / mirroring) from either USB or CDROM drives from the following steps:
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Is the directory a located under the root filesystem. ie /a? Are there any other mount point for say USB drive as well? I am not in a position to try it out right now but will get back
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Vendor: ATA      Product: SAMSUNG HD321KJ Revision: 0-11 Serial No:
Size: 320.07GB <320072932864 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 41 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c0t0d0           Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 5 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: PHILIPS Product: DVD+-RW DVD8801 Revision: AD21 Serial
Size: 17.54GB <17538875392 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 5 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 10 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c2t0d0           Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: JetFlash Product: Transcend 16GB   Revision: 1100 Serial No:
Size: 0.00GB <0 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 7 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
# rmformat
Looking for devices...
     1. Volmgt Node: /vol/dev/aliases/cdrom0
        Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2
        Physical Node: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@0/sd@0,0
        Connected Device: PHILIPS DVD+-RW DVD8801 AD21
        Device Type: DVD Reader/WriterHowever, I was disappointed that "iostat -En" has not found the secondary disk (1 TB) even though it was available earlier, for Solaris installation as the only disk on the same system.
As a result, I am left with no option but the need to rebuild this system with only a single primary disk while in single user mode. However, the single user mode that I am in is the
one from Solaris installation disk with restrictive (_cannot create folder for mount point or running disk management utilities_) capability such as those services just covered, compared to one from a completed Solaris installation system with full access to all filesystems and utilities / commands in general.
I would very much value your assistance on how to mount both CD & USB in this restrictive limited Read Only OS (assume that it is running from memory) in order to get complete access to
the blank primary disk so that full restore with ufsrestore could take place.
Thanks in advance,
Jack
Edited by: 797805 on 9/06/2012 04:15

How to mount SAN drive inside Solaris 10

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hostname#echo | format :
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cerate mount point: mkdir /test
mount /dev/dsk/c1t2d0sX /test
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Searching for disks...done
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0.c0t0d0
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you have fallow the above steps..

[SOLVED]mounting cdrom and usb devices doesn't work

Hello,
i have trouble mounting my usb devices. automount doesn't work and i can't mount them manually even as a superuser. here's the output of mount command:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
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i'm using lxde with pcmanfm.
if you need any other files just ask.
thanks
Last edited by the gray (2009-03-16 20:15:18)

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Installing from an external usb cdrom drive

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arch-scsi NEEDUSB=auto
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Has anyone else installed ARCH using an external USB cdrom drive ?
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Thank you Xentac for you help. I looked up the bug report and understand the problem. Now how do I proceed from here?
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My hyphothesis is that my southbridge (which deals with the cdrom, harddisk drives and the usb devices) is somehow broken.
I'd like to have your oppinion on this, or at least confirm if my cdrom, harddisk etc. really aren't culpable in this problem so I might reuse them. Right now my solution would be to buy a new motherboard/CPU/memory and reuse all the other components.
EDIT: My hardware is:
CPU: AMD Athlon64 3500+
Motherboard: Asus A8V-E SE (Northbridge: VIA K8T890 | Southbridge: VIA VT8237R )
Memory: 2 GB
HDD: 2x SATA-150
CDROM: DVD-writer
System ran ok from 2006
Last edited by Chromoris (2009-12-17 04:38:06)

Well your testing and conclusion seem correct, but maybe before buying new stuff, try booting those drives using a different machine, if there are no problems... then go ahead and get the new board.
Testing the drives with a different machine will need to wait untill after the holidays. However the disks are not that old, one is almost brand new, and nothing has given me an indication that something is wrong with the disks itself. So I think it is a safe assumption that the disks themselves are good, but it won't hurt to check I guess.
Remove the hard drives (or at least their cables) and boot a Live Linux CD from the CDROM drive. Same issues? If yes, and you have checked memtest as you said then either you have a motherboard or CPU fault. At that point remove your CPU and renew the heat sink compound and reseat the CPU. If that does not work probably a motherboard fault as you suspect.
Removed the cables and booted with a Live CD, problem remained. Althrough this time I've been rewarded with a kernel panic, still couldn't find the booted cdrom device. I renewed the heat sink compound a few months ago so I'm fairly confident it is still good. I did that because my CPU overheated, and I've kept a good eye on the temperature sensors ever since. Besides I know what happens if my CPU overheats so I'm pretty sure it is not overheating. Should the problem be a broken CPU, well that would almost be the same as a broken motherboard and I would have to replace both of them. I cannot easely find replacement parts for either the cpu or the motherboard, socket 939 has become obsolete.

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I solved my little "issue" apparently it was just the dvd I was trying, for some odd reason my dvd drive was refusing to auto-load the dvd movie. Yes I burned a dvd movie, I do own the original copy, I just burn a backup incase of dmg / loss. The original dvd loads fine with no mounting issues. The dvd I burned works in a dvd player, and on my secondary dvd/rw drive, I don't like watching movies on the dvd/rw drive though because of the fact that it's read capabilities is much slower. I am still puzzled on why my dvd drive doesn't like to mount / read it correctly.

mzneverdies wrote:
not sure, but in order to mount cds/dvds, I think you must use the -o loop flag
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Solaris-x86 mount fat32 partition, the partition max size limit?

solaris10 x86, laptop, 10G FAT32 partition for windows & x86 exchange data.
the fat32 partition mount as normal, can be read fine.
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Mounting Windows partition in Solaris
The easiest way to share data now is to do it through a FAT32 partition. Solaris
recognises it as partition of type pcfs. It is specified as device:drive where drive is
either the DOS logical drive letter (c through z) or a drive number (1 through 24).
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on the disk; drive letters d through z are equivalent to drive numbers 2 through 24,
and represent DOS drives within the Extended DOS partition.Syntax is
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disk in the directory /d use
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You can use mount directory-name after appending following line is in
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for example
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C: - NTFS, D:-FAT32, E:-NTFS, F:-FAT32
Then you can only mount D, F not C & E.
Mounting D Drive:
mount -F pcfs /dev/disk/c0d0p0:c /mountpoint
Mounting F Drive
mount -F pcfs /dev/disk/c0d0p0:d /mountpoint
The driveletter only for fat not including other file systems (ntfs or any linux filesystems).

Solaris 8 Floppy Disk Drive Problem

Hi to all!, I need help with Solaris 8 10/00 Intel. I�ve installed it and everything works fine, but I cant make the system to recognize the floppy disk drive, everytime I do a "volcheck", it just ignores it. Inside CDE happens the same thing, when I do check the floppy, nothing happens. Any clue?. I�m using an AMD Athlon 700, with VIA KT133 chipset. Thank a lot!.

Try "ftp" + your email address. (but "anonymous" works, too).
Perhaps a typo or there was some other temporary problem with the
web site.
The K7M boards have different bios release numbers, it seems the
first bios release had a revision number of 1007:
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/slota/k7m
Do you have to boot using the DCA floppy for some specific reason?
(for example to install using the >32GB ide-drive patch; network install
and no local cdrom drive; El-Torito CDROM boot does not work at all)?
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686A SouthBridge PCI/ISA device and it re-enables the Super-I/O
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this board, too.

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Hi everyone....
I'm about up to my wits end trying to allow my normal user to mount and unmount my cdrom drives...
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I then did
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then i did a
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I also made sure that the 3 mount directorys in fstab existed and gave them 777 permissions...
Did a complete reboot... and the normal user still can't use mount... I get this error...
mount: must be superuser to use mount
I'm at my wits end. I believe fstab is correct. I believe my permissions are set correctly... Is there anything else I need to do?
Thanks in advance for any replies...
James

longhornxtreme wrote:man chmod doesn't say what s does.... so I'm kind of at a loss of understanding...
The man page says exactly what it does...read more carefully
the chmod manpage wrote:The letters `rwxXstugo' select the new permissions for the affected
users: read (r), write (w), execute (or access for directories) (x),
execute only if the file is a directory or already has execute permis-
sion for some user (X), set user or group ID on execution (s), sticky
(t), the permissions granted to the user who owns the file (u), the
permissions granted to other users who are members of the file's group
(g), and the permissions granted to users that are in neither of the
two preceding categories (o).

Mounting NAS drives to iMac

Hello, I have had this problem for some time and haven't figured out the fix and so far neither has anyone else.
I have a Linkstation Buffalo NAS device.
I have it mounting to my iMac at boot automatically.
When it does mount the drives I get an icon on the desktop and a finder window opens on the desktop for each mount.
This is not what I want, I want a quite in the background mount.
When I go into to System Preferences and select Users & Groups I move to the Login items and there I can see the filesystems I want to mount at boot up.
I leave the boxes checked so that the default is to hide the mounts when I log in.
It doesn't work, unchecking the boxes doesn't work.
Does anyone know how to prevent finder from opening a bunch of popups when these mounts go active so I don't have to close them each time?
I don't see an vfstab or fstab like you would under Solaris or Linux that can be hacked.
ej

From what I'm reading online, it sounds like that "hide" feature only works for applications.
I'm having the same annoying issue. Not sure there is a fix unfortunately.

Mounting IFS-Drive...Problem

We have successfully installed Ifs 1.1 on a sun solaris machine.
We tried to mount the Ifs Drive in Windows NT, with no success. The Samba server is running on the IFS machine, as we have seen.
Until now we had no problems to mount the ifs drive. The difference was that IFS was installed on a NT machine.
What do we have to look for when we want to mount the IFS drive on (Ifs is on solaris)
with Windows NT?
Second question:
Is it possible to mount the drive via Internet?

But if we shut down the samba server, we aren4t able to access the IFS-Drive via Windows NT, or? What we mean is the Samba-Server of IFS.<<
Ok sorry, I thought you where using samba and iFS on the same machine (BTW: iFS has nothing to do with samba. It has it's own implementation of the smb protocol). What is your exact problem ? I just installed iFS on a Solaris 7 machine and hat almost no problems integrating it into my windows environment. The only problem I had was that the iFS server isn't visible in my Network Neighborhood. But I was able to search (and find) the computer with the 'search computer dialog'.
Regards
Roger
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Mouting CDrom drive doesn't work

Hi all, I have been looking through the forums the last 2 days trying to find an answer to why my CDrom drive won't mount any CD's, but unfortunately no succes.
I have an IDE kernel, with a CDrom drive and a DVD drive, my fstab looks like this:
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/floppy/0 /mnt/fl vfat user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part8 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part7 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/discs/disc0/part6 /boot ext3 defaults 0 1
I changed:
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
to
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
When I go to /dev/cdrom/ and execute # mount cdrom0 I get the following error:
mount: can't find /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
And when I go to /dev/cdrom/ and execute # mount cdrom1 I get the following error:
mount: can't find /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
And if I just execute # mount cdrom0 or # mount cdrom1 I get the following error:
can't find cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
I have no idea what could be wrong, any help is very welcome.

Hi, thanks for the replies:
I tried what you said, and I get the following:
# mount /dev/cdrom/cdrom0
mount: mount point /mnt/cd does not exist
# mount /dev/cdrom/cdrom1
mount: mount point /mnt/dvd does not exist
Does this mean I don't have a mount point?

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