CDROM automount

[reis]

Is it possible, to mount each CDROM, if I insert one (like IRIX does) and if I eject a CDROM to do an unmount automatically. Some Users have to read a lot of data from CDROM??s an it would be great, if they don??t need to mount it by hand. Automount doesn??t work.

Kind regards
Walter

[Stefan Farrelly]

No, its not possible to mount cd's automatically under HP-UX.

The only thing you could do is write a job which ran say every minute or 30 seconds and tried to mount the CD - if one was present it would mount it, if not it would simply return an error which you could ignore.

[V. Nyga]

Hi Walter,

you can create an alias like cdmount and cdumount, but I don't believe that HP-UX will do it full automatically.
I've not yet seen a routine for that.

Regards
Volkmar

[Armin Feller]

Hi,

you should be able to automount the cdrom via nfs automounter, but the nfs automounter does not know the cdfs.

Please try following:

umount all nfs fs
# umountall -F nfs -k

stop nfs client
# /sbin/init.d/nfs.client stop

set AUTOMOUNT and AUTOFS to 1 in /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf

add cdrom to /etc/auto_direct file
/cdrom -fstype=cdfs,ro,cdcase :/dev/dsk/c0t0d0

start nfs client
# /sbin/init.d/nfs.client start

and test if it works.

Regards ...
Armin

[Ravi_8]

Hi walter

Unlike in Solaris, HP-UX doesn't support this, one has to manually mount/unmount the CDROM