cdrom will not open...
 

Hi,

I am running an older enterprise 250 using ultrasparc ii's. Anyway that's not real important.

I do not use solaris often and need to remember the command to use to check for hardware failures...I know there are several and I thought that I used prtconf -v, but the information I remember receiving was organized and laid out faily well. Whenever I type prtconf -v now I receive a LOT of information and not organized the way I remember it.

Does anyone know how to test the cdrom specifically, beside opeing up the system?

* The cdrom drive has power. pressing the eject button only causes the activity light to flash 3 -4 times. Taking a paperclip to it will open the drive, but once it's closed you can't open it again until you take the paperclip out.

any ideas?

thanks

"prtdiag" is probably the command you are looking for.

What does the "eject cdrom" command shows ?

eject cdrom:
No such file or directory


prtdiag: no failures found on system.

Sounds like you have automounter running. When the CDrom is mounted you cannot eject it. Unmount the CD then eject it.

What shows "eject -d" and "ps -ef|grep vold" ?

I don't know... An init 0 did the trick where an init 6 failed.

interesting... (To me at least)

thanks for your help though.

volmgt cmd
 

You need to shut down volmgt before eject cd will work.

/etc/init.d/volmgt stop

then eject cd or the button will work.

Now the thing won't close.

I'm on the second install cd and everytime I hit the close button, or push the drive closed, it ejects...

I'm thinking something is wrong with the drive.

thanks for the help.

-Me