topic Mounting DVD on Itanium Server in Operating System - HP-UX

Mounting DVD on Itanium Server

Aashish Kumar Taunk — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:01:42 GMT

Hi,

I am totally new to HP-UX Itanium servers(and HP-UX OS). I have a new server:
# model
ia64 hp server rx2660

OS installation was fine on it. After OS installation, I tried to mount a DVD. After a lot of Googling, I am still stuck. I get the following error:
# ioscan -fnC disk
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
===============================================================================
disk 3 0/0/2/1.0.16 UsbScsiAdaptor CLAIMED DEVICE USB SCSI Stack Adaptor
/dev/deviceFileSystem/Usb/MassStorage/dsk/disk@hp-1008+294=A60020000001
/dev/deviceFileSystem/Usb/MassStorage/rdsk/disk@hp-1008+294=A60020000001

# mount /dev/deviceFileSystem/Usb/MassStorage/dsk/disk@hp-1008+294=A60020000001 /aashish
/dev/deviceFileSystem/Usb/MassStorage/dsk/disk@hp-1008+294=A60020000001: unrecognized file system

Please help.

Re: Mounting DVD on Itanium Server

Ian Dennison_1 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:07:07 GMT

Have you tried using the "rdsk" device?

Re: Mounting DVD on Itanium Server

Aashish Kumar Taunk — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:08:15 GMT

This is the error i get with 'rdsk' device:
# mount /dev/deviceFileSystem/Usb/MassStorage/rdsk/disk@hp-1008+294=A60020000001 /aashish
mount: /dev/deviceFileSystem/Usb/MassStorage/rdsk/disk@hp-1008+294=A60020000001 is an invalid operand

Re: Mounting DVD on Itanium Server

Jupinder Bedi — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:14:20 GMT

try it as follows

mount -F cdfs -o ro,rr,noauto /dev/deviceFileSystem/Usb/MassStorage/dsk/disk@hp-1008+294=A60020000001 /aashish

Good luck!!!!

Re: Mounting DVD on Itanium Server

Aashish Kumar Taunk — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:17:36 GMT

@ jupinder

thanks a lot!!!... that worked!!!

As i said I am pretty new to HP-UX, would you mind to explain
a) what exactly was i doing wrong?
b) is there any specific procedure to unmount?

Regards,
Aashish

Re: Mounting DVD on Itanium Server

Jupinder Bedi — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:21:46 GMT

you need to mention the cdfs filesystem with the mount option for mounting and unmounting the cdrom ......... points please :-)

Re: Mounting DVD on Itanium Server

Torsten. — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:23:20 GMT

# unmount /aashish

But you are using the old USB drivers.

You should uninstall them and install the current USB driver (from media or software.hp.com).

By doing this you get the good old /dev/dsk/cxtydz devices back.

Re: Mounting DVD on Itanium Server

Torsten. — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:25:55 GMT

https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=USB2

Re: Mounting DVD on Itanium Server

Aashish Kumar Taunk — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:32:28 GMT

@jupinder:
thanks for that info... and full points as everything worked perfectly on the first go :-)

@torsten:
thanks for the unmounting command and info on USB drivers info..would you have(i am sure u would) good link which lists some good system commands for HP-UX... this is the first time i am working on a HP-UX server.. and i am having some hard time with it....

Re: Mounting DVD on Itanium Server

Torsten. — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:32:57 GMT

(almost) everything you need is on

http://docs.hp.com -> 11iv3 (11.31)

Re: Mounting DVD on Itanium Server

Aashish Kumar Taunk — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:47:32 GMT

Ok torsten, thanks a mil!!

Re: Mounting DVD on Itanium Server

Torsten. — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:47:55 GMT

http://docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11iv3.html#System%20Administration

Re: Mounting DVD on Itanium Server

Aashish Kumar Taunk — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:14:24 GMT

The mount command provided by Jupinder Bedi worked. Aditional info provided by Torsten was very useful.