Problem mounting DVD on Solaris 10 (x86)

[christianhicks]

I have just installed Solaris 10. I have read various threads on how to mount CDs put can't get mine going. My Sony DVD RW-U14A is attached to IDE2 as the master.

If I type
iostat -En
I get
c1t0d0 soft errors 0 hard errors 0 transport errors 0
Vendor Sony Product DVD RW-U14A
Size 0Gb etc.

I then try to mount
mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 /cdrom
mount: /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 no such device

I then did an ls in /dev/dsk and found that the
driver was there.

I also tried the same command with c1t0d0p0 and that
also didn't work with the same error message.

The CD in the drive contained a tar file which I had put
onto the CD from Windows.

Any help would be very gratefully received.

Many thanks,
Chris.

 

[bfitzmai]

Have you checked the Hardware Control List to see if Solaris supports your DVD-RW.

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/

Also have you tried volcheck. Some of the documents I have looked at on BigAdmin seems to indicate that volume manager should handle your DVD mounting.

 

[christianhicks]

My DVD drive is not on the HCL list, but I think it must be OK because I used it to install Solaris in the first place. It is also showing up correctly when I do an
iostat -EN
it also shows no errors.

 

[eezy77]

Not sure..sounds like a /etc "conf" file setup is needed. Something like sd.conf for your platform to utilize the DVD correctly.