Summary:Having problems with my CD drive

From: Scott McCracken <scottm_at_synergex.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 8:23:25 -0700 (PDT)

With thanks to:
Michael Matthews
Tom Rioux
Dr. Tom Blinn

Original message:
>Hello Managers,
> I am having a problem with my CD drive. I have a software distribution
>in the form of a cpio archive on a CD, and I can't get at it. I have tested it
>on other machines and it works fine. The two machines that I have tested it on
>are the SGI Indy and the Sun Solaris. On both of these machines I am able to
>click on the CD icon and open up the drive and use CPIO to get the data off of
>the CD. There doesn't seem to be anything similar on the DU machine. I would
>be grateful for any help.
>

Solution:
cd /sys/conf
grep -i cdfs <upper-case-hostname>

should look like:
alpha1:root:/sys/conf# grep -i cdfs ALPHA1
options CDFS

if not, then do a "man doconfig"
and follow the steps to add a cdfs option.

to mount:
/sbin/mount -rt cdfs -o nodefperm,noversion /dev/rz4c /cdrom

Then do your cpio command.

Thanks
Scott
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Scott "Scottie" McCracken, PVCS Project Manager
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Received on Tue Jul 16 1996 - 17:43:29 NZST

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