topic Re: Mount an external DVD Drive in Operating System - HP-UX

Mount an external DVD Drive

Grayh — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:26:41 GMT

How can I mount an external dvd drive on hp-ux11i V3 to install the Application Software

# ioscan -fnC disk
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
===============================================================================
disk 7 0/0/2/1.0.16 UsbScsiAdaptor CLAIMED DEVICE USB SCSI St
ack Adaptor
/dev/deviceFileSystem/Usb/MassStorage/dsk/disk@hp-1008
+797=HH66MC032VE1
/dev/deviceFileSystem/Usb/MassStorage/rdsk/disk@hp-100
8+797=HH66MC032VE1
disk 3 0/2/1/0.0.0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP
DG146BABCF
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s1
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s3
disk 2 0/2/1/0.0.0.1.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP
DG146BABCF

Re: Mount an external DVD Drive

Robert-Jan Goossens_1 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:36:08 GMT

Hi,

# ln -s /dev/deviceFileSystem/Usb/MassStorage/dsk/disk@hp-1008
+797=HH66MC032VE1 /dev/cdrom

# mkdir /cdrom
# mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom

HTH,
Robert-Jan

Re: Mount an external DVD Drive

Torsten. — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:59:50 GMT

The reason for this is, this hp-ux release is using the device file system - you probably have seen this in linux before.

BTW, why you didn't create the hardware RAID on your disks?

see

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1267148

Re: Mount an external DVD Drive

Grayh — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:50:18 GMT

Thank you