mounting dvd drive

[Patrick B Boafo]

could someone please assist please.

in attempt to mount dvd media using the command "mount /dev/c0t0d0 /dvd" had this error message
mount: cannot access -specific mount command

thanks

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Patrick,

Example:

# ioscan -nfCdisk
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type
===============================================================
disk 0 0/0/2/0.0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0

create the mount point
# mkdir /cdrom

mount the cdrom
# mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /cdrom

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Torsten.]

/dev/c0t0d0 should be /dev/dsk/c0t0d0 - right?

[R.O.]

Hi,

Try

"mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /dvd"

You missed "dsk"

Regards,

[Steven Schweda]

In many cases when "mount" fails, "ls -l" on
its principal arguments is a good place to
start. I've seldom found the error messages
from "mount" to be particularly enlightening.

[Patrick B Boafo]

have gone through what have been suggested but still have the same error message

[Tim Nelson]

are you sure your DVD drive works ?

if you have another server try that one ?

try a different dvd ?

[Torsten.]

What command did you use exactly?

[Steven Schweda]

> What command did you use exactly?

As usual, showing actual commands with their
actual output can be more helpful than vague
descriptions and interpretations. Copy+paste
was a clever invention. You should consider
using it more.