CD-Rom installation using SAM

[Cecil Funderburk_1]

I have an HP 9000/720 OS 10.20I am installing an External HP SCSI 9600 cd-writer. I am using SAM to add the CD-ROM. I can see the CD_ROM in disk & file systems but the CDFS is not showing up as an availible file system. I dont know what to put in the Add Disk without LVM-----> Mount Directory Box.
Or what to do with the SD-CDROM folder. I would like it to auto-mount

[Steven E. Protter]

All you need to do is set the SCSI ID on the external CD Writer. Then cable it in to the system on a free SCSI port.

You must take a look at ioscan and makes sure the ID you set doesn't conflict with anything else in the box.

To add the hardware, merely hook it up, assuming its certified to work with HP-UX/HP-9000 servers, run the ioscan and the device should show up on the scan as claimed.

If not, or other hardware disappears, you either have a SCSI conflict or a drive thats not certified.

SAM has nothing to do with it, you don't add disks.

Since you are 10.20, you may need to boot your machine to get it to recignize the drive.

SEP

[Steven E. Protter]

Slight revision.

There may be a need to install the driver for this product prior to anything I said in my prior post.

Once detected, you can mount the new drive in the same directory you used for the old one, just not at the same time.

mount /dev/dsk/c3t2d0 /cdrom

or any folder you want.

I never personally use /SDROMM I like to use /cdrom

For cd writer, I think I'd use /cdw

SEP

[Cecil Funderburk]

Hello I tried all of your suggestion but none have worked maybe I am not doing it right and I cant seem to be able to assign points to anyone

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

Use this command to identify the device file for the CDRoM drive:

ioscan -knfC disk

It will show all the disks. Underneath the CDROM line, there will be a couple of device files such as /dev/dsk/c1t2d0. Now since a CDROM drive is removable, there is no such thing as a filesystem until the CDROM is mounted. So to mount the CDROM drive, locate the device file (/dev/dsk...from above) and create a mountpoint to connect the CDROM disc into the HP-UX filesystem, as in:

mkdir /cdrom

Then mount the CD something like this:

mount /dev/dsk/... /cdrom

Now things get complicated. For HP-UX CD's, everything will look OK. But for non-HP-UX CDs, you'll see DOS-like names (8 chars max, 3 char extension) plus ;1 which is the version number. This is the basic ISO-9660 format which is all that (obsolete) 10.20 HP-UX can understand. To mount the CD to support long filenames, you'll need to start the PFS daemons on the correct order (man pfs) and NOT use the mount command, but use the pfs_mount command. The PFS package will handle RockRidge long filenames.

If you don't need long filenames, you can put a permanent entry in /etc/fstab like this:

/dev/dsk/c6t2d0 /cdrom cdfs noauto 0 0

What this does is to leave /cdrom unmounted until an explicit mount command is used as in:

mount /cdrom

The noauto option prevents an attempt to mount the CDROM at every reboot.

[Cecil Funderburk]

Thank you for your response and I can't seem to be able to assign points for your replies to my question. By the way I was not typing the full path for the mount command to work and your last post made the difference. Again thank you so much for your help

[Patrick Wallek]

Cecil,

To assign points you have to login with the id that you used when you created this question. It appears that you have 2 identically named IDs. The one you did your last reply with is different from your other ID, since it shows up with "unassigned" in the points area rather than "N/A: Question Author" which is what should show up if you logged in with the original account.

Find your other ID, log in with it, and you'll be able to assign points.

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

When you find the device of the cdrom and
gonna mount you can use the -o cdcase that
will change the view of the fs depend on
how the cd was burned
mount -o cdcase /dev/dsk/cXtXdX /cdrom

Caesar