pfs_mount

[Dave Bunting]

Hi,
I have an Oracle installation Cd and trying to mount it using pfs-mount cmd, already started pfsd and pfs_mount commands but i get errors:
NFS server not responding
after server restarts, i get: device /dev/dsk/c#t#d# [cdrom device file]not responding
i have PFS patch installed...
any other ideas where i can look for possible answers?

Thanks very much for all the help that will be coming.... ;-)

[Stefan Farrelly]

The old NFS server not responding error caused by pfs_mount and Oracle CD's is almost always caused by a DIRTY CD. Weve just had the same problem here the last few days. Every time it happened we had to reboot and sure enough, on removing the CD is was dirty on the back.

Remove and clean your CD or replace it with a nice copy and this will fix your problem. The Oracle metalink confirmed this for us.

[Ruediger Noack]

Hi,

is there an nfs mount entry for your CD device in /etc/fstab?

[ian Dennison]

Personally, I loathe 'pfs_mount', and it seems to return the favour! I have had heaps of problems, and there are a large number of forum messages about it!

Try this command, which will provide the long file names that the application may need.

mount -F cdfs -o cdcase /dev/dev/cf_dev_file /mount_point

Share and Enjoy! Ian

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

It's the problem with CD. Try out with another copy.

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Dave,

Try these two links,

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=7099d6c7061cd844ce/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000048194466

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=7099d6c7061cd844ce/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000055877498

Hope this helps.

Regds