[desktop-discuss] Unable to mount CDRW

[Joey Guo]

Harmen wrote:

>Hello everybody,
>
>In my 8 hours with 'the most advanced os in the world', Solaris Express b41, I haven't found a way to mount any rewritable media. 
>
By default, Solaris will mount the removable device automatically.

>When I insert a disc, all it wants to do is format the disc. When I disable the volmanager to bypass this strange behavior and want to mount manually, it says that the device I try to mount is not a block device. 
>
/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 is the character device name. Its corresponding block
device name is
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2. Please note there is no 'r' in the block device name.

Try it again with the block device name.

>However, the device I use is the device found by 'rmformat' ? The man page for mount explains options which are not available in the actual command and vice versa. 
>
If your disc is formated in Windoz, please try the following to mount:
1. List the removable device
#format -e
....
=> Pick up the new disk like /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2

2. Manual mount
#mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2:c /mnt

Please find more instructions at
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5093/6mkisopv3?a=view

Good luck!

Thanks,
Joey

>This behavior is not what I expected from 'the most advanced OS on the planet'. I mean, even DOS understands CDRW/DVDRW, come on!
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