topic Re: to mount CDROm in Operating System - HP-UX

to mount CDROm

laiju.c.babu — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:05:02 GMT

When im trying to mount CDROm (mount /dev/dsk/c11t2d0 /cdrom) it is showing I/O ERROR.. I checked in /etc/fstab here there is no entry for cdrom..

Re: to mount CDROm

Torsten. — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:12:43 GMT

What is your OS? What is on the CD?

Just in case it is hp-ux and the cd-rom is bootable, try

mount -r /dev/dsk/c11t2d0 /cdrom

Re: to mount CDROm

V. Nyga — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:07:19 GMT

Hi,

this mounting command only works with an inserted cd ... whta do you want to read?
What is the result of 'ioscan -fnC disk'

Volkmar

Re: to mount CDROm

Sandeep_Chaudhary — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:07:38 GMT

on HP-UX try:

mount -o cdcase,ro /dev/dsk/cxtxdx /mnt

Re: to mount CDROm

Sandeep_Chaudhary — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:26:13 GMT

Here is the list of the CD-ROM mounting commands
according to the Unix platform used ([options] different values).

IBM AIX
mount -rv cdrfs /dev/cd0 /cdrom

HP-UX 11
mount -o rr,cdcase /dev/xxx

LINUX
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom

Tru64 UNIX
mount -r /dev/rz?c /cdrom
or
mount -r -t cdfs -o rrip /dev/rz?c /cdrom
where [?] is the CD-ROM SCSI ID (usually 4)

SGI IRIX
mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cd0 /cdrom

Sun SOLARIS 2.6, 7, 8 and 9
without vold: mount -r -F hsfs /dev/cd0 /cdrom

Re: to mount CDROm

laiju.c.babu — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:07:25 GMT

Thanks to alll,,

I tried witha differnet mediaa. Now i can mount.....

Thanks for kind reply,