Hi!
I have solaris 10 on a sunfire V240.
I installed the companion CD today. solaris detected the cd immediatly no mount was needed. the installation went fine. but then I coundn't take the cd away! Since I didn't need any mount, I thought I wouldn't need any umount either. But then the drive wouldn't open. I then first tried with but I got then . I didn't get any error message but I still couldn't open the drive.
I searched in internet and found those 2 threads:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hlight=unmount

finally I did:
and it worked.
I have 4 questions:
Do I have to restart volmgt?
What is volmgt for?
What went wrong?
how am I supposed to eject a cd in a clean way?

thanks in advance.

Are you on an older (05) version of Solaris 10? Vomgt/vold were known to have odd issues in those older versions. I've not seen the problem on 06/06 or 11/06.

"eject cdrom" should have worked in the first place.

By the way, vold/volmgt have recently been removed from the OpenSolaris source code and replaced by something more efficient and user friendly (HAL).

You can use Solaris Expres build 54 or newer to experiment it.

i'm not sure about the automount/autorun of cdrom in solaris but if you are mounting other type of cd on older solaris and are having problems ... probably you can stop that volmgt altogether(i actually prefer this way) ...

this seems to work with me(x86 though) on cdroms ::

/etc/init.d/volmgt stop
ls -al /dev/sr* |awk '{print "/dev/" $11}'
--- /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2 /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom
cd ../
umount /mnt/cdrom
eject with that button ...

reference ::
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoce...t/t0008850.htm

correct me if i'm wrong ...

btw ... although i got no problems with my volmgt on cdroms and usb but i have newer downloaded solaris express iso that havent been burnt onto cdr , probably i try them ...


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