too much time in mounting CD

[nasimuddin ansari]

Deal All
In one of my ES40 server running Tru64 ver 5.1A, CD mounting process is tacking too much time (20-30 minutes). Similaraly umounting is tacking too much time. Not only this, if somehow CD is mounted, ls -l /mnt/cdrom also take too much time. (otherwise system is running fine)

- 52X IDE CD ROM drive is brand new one and working fine on one of my windows machine. I dumped a complete CD on this windows machine within 4 minutes.

- On SRM prompt, SHOW DEV, I can see my CDROM as ATAPI 52X CD ROM.

- Original CD Drive wos not working, so we replaced with new one. One more observation, earlier drive device file was /dev/disk/cdrom0c. Now, replaced drive is being accessed with /dev/disk/cdrom2c. "dsfmgr -K" is also generating same device file.

Is it Operating system problem or Hardware problem. Any help is appreciated.

Opinion and solution awaited. I have to install new softwares on my server.

[Hein van den Heuvel]

Could be a software problem fixed in a patch.
What patch level do you have?
No serious cdrom issue reported in PK4
http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/patch/51A/bl21/ReleaseNotes.pdf

The device name change is normal, when a new device is seen. Tru64 tries to keep them unique. You can rename if so desired with hwmgr and/or dsfmgr.

You proably don't want just -m (move) command.
Checkout the -D command to remove the old one followed by the -m (you can then move the "new" one to take the place of the old one).
Or, use -e to exchange them and then use -D to remove the one you don't want.


fwiw,
Hein.

[nasimuddin ansari]

Simply changing the CD Rom drive with 48X speed, solve our problem.
Means 52X is not supported in ver 5.1A.
Thanks to all who tried to help me.