[desktop-discuss] Re: Unable to mount CDRW

[Moinak Ghosh]

Harmen wrote:

>Well, after another try to sort this I come to the conclusion that Solaris is very picky about the discs. The CDRW's I use are Nashua and Verbatim. DVD-RW from Philips are accepted though. The strangest thing is, when I insert a CDRW in my DVD-ROM drive Solaris' Volumemanager thinks it must be formatted. This behavior is wrong in my opinion. To make things clear I include a log a typical session.
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>%mount -oro /dev/dsk/c1t1d0p0 /mnt/cdrom
>mount: /dev/dsk/c1t1d0p0 is already mounted or /mnt/cdrom is busy
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>%/etc/init.d/volmgt stop
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>%cdrecord dev=1,1,0 -eject
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>%cdrecord dev=1,1,0 -load
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>%fstyp /dev/dsk/c1t1d0p0
>hsfs
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>%fstyp /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s2
>hsfs
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>%mount -oro /dev/dsk/c1t1d0p0 /mnt/cdrom
>mount: /dev/dsk/c1t1d0p0 is not this fstype
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>%mount -F hsfs -oro /dev/dsk/c1t1d0p0 /mnt/cdrom
>hsfs mount: /dev/dsk/c1t1d0p0 is not an hsfs file system.
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   Try using /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s2 instead of  ...p0 in your mount command.

Regards,
Moinak.

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>Now, don't you think this is odd behavior ?
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