Mounting CDs on HP-UX which were created on NT

[Joe Profaizer]

I have the DataProtector 5.5 for HP demo files downloaded and unzipped on my NT file share and have copied such files to a CD. When explore the CD on my windows workstation I see the filenames in whole as expected. When I mount the CD on my HP server (N4000 w/ 11.11), the file names are either truncated or shortened to and 8.3 convention. The mount command I used on HP is:
#mount -F cdfs -o cdcase /dev/cdrom /cdrom
or
#mount -o cdcase /dev/cdrom /cdrom
In both mount commands for HP I see the same result:
omnisetup.sh reads as omnisetu.sh on HP
dp_a0550_UX11x.sd_depot reads as dp_a0550.sd_ on HP

Thanks,

..Joe

Please advise

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Joe,

Merijn/Procura has a site with some faqs.

http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/

My CD-ROM doesn't show what I expect
It can be an Oracle CD-ROM, or a CD created on Windows, or whereever they used Rock Ridge extensions. Long names are truncated or show upper case only. Oracle tells you to use pfs_mount.

Do not use pfs_mount!. Install the Rock-Ridge extension patches instead and never worry about these problems. For HP-UX 11.00 you will need forget all about PFS and install PHKL_26448 (now superceded by PHKL_28060), PHCO_26449, and PHKL_26450 to have HP-UX recognize those file systems automatically on mount! For HP-UX 11.11 (11i) you need PHCO_25841, PHKL_26269, and PHKL_25760 (now superceded by PHKL_28025).

No need thereafter to use -o cdfs to mount anymore, provided you enter the CD drive in /etc/fstab like this:

/dev/cd0 /cdrom cdfs ro,rr,noauto 0 0

Best regards,
Robert-Jan

[Fred Ruffet]

try this one :
mount -F cdfs -o rr /dev/cdrom /cdrom
(rock ridge extensions)

Regards,

Fred

[Eric Antunes]

Hi Joe,

See this good discussion too:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=604711

Best Regards,

Eric Antunes

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Joe,

Try and mount the cd using the rock ridge extention and see if you can access the cd properly. You may have to load the rock-ridge extention patches if you don't have them on the system. In the absence of these patches you won't be able to use the -o rr option with the mount command.

Your other choice if to mount the cd using pfs_mount but that is not always an advisable options.

Rock-ridge extention patches for 11.11 are,

PHCO_25841 s700_800 11.11 Add Rock Ridge extension to mount_cdfs(1M)
PHCO_25905 find(1) patch
PHKL_26269 Rock Ridge extension for ISO-9660
PHKL_26520 Rock Ridge extension for ISO-9660

Hope this helps.

Regds