Re: cd doesn't automount

From: Ivan Rayner (ivanr_at_sgi.com)
Date: 03/03/05 

Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 07:07:58 +0000 (UTC)

Timothy Larson <thelarsons3@cox.net> wrote:
> In article <38n33vF5npaqaU1@individual.net>,
> Toni Grass <toni@fotoni.at> wrote:
>
>> http://techpubs.sgi.com/
>>
>> man mediad
>>
>> /etc/config/mediad
>
> I'd discovered the existence of mediad through Google, but don't know
> where to get it, nor what its config file should look like to do what I
> want, nor what its init.d script should look like. If I at least had
> the binary I could test with different configs until I got it to work.
> Am I screwed without the binary?
>
> I can't even get the CD to mount manually. It should be as easy as
> "mount -t <type> <dev> <dir>" but I get "block device required" errors
> all the time.

mediad comes with IRIX. You need to have eoe.sw.rm_media installed.
If you don't have mediad, you can mount CDs manually, but let's not
bother with that. Do the following to check if you have it:

 # showfiles eoe.sw.rm_media
 f 49244 3 eoe.sw.rm_media c etc/config/mediad
 f 16460 3 eoe.sw.rm_media c etc/config/mediad.options
 f 11315 1377 eoe.sw.rm_media etc/init.d/mediad
 l 0 0 eoe.sw.rm_media etc/rc0.d/K09mediad
 l 0 0 eoe.sw.rm_media etc/rc2.d/S97mediad
 f 1423 221996 eoe.sw.rm_media usr/etc/mediad
 ...

If you don't have it, you'll get no listing, and you'll need to
install it from the IRIX CDs.

If you do have it, then you should check that it is enabled:

  # chkconfig |grep mediad
          mediad on

If it is not 'on', then turn it on and run the init script:

  # chkconfig mediad on
  # /etc/init.d/mediad start

The default config should just work for you. The config files
are:

  /etc/config/mediad.options
  /etc/config/mediad.config

The .options file, which just contains command line arguments, will
probably just contain '-n'. The .config file may not exist, or may
contain nothing but comments (lines starting with #). If it does
exist, then you'll need to read the man page on mediad to work out
what your config is doing. You can probably move the config file
out of the way and start mediad with no config file.

If CDs will still not mount, you can run mediad in the foreground
and have it spit out lots of information:

  # killall mediad
  # mediad -f

If still no luck, then post the output of 'mediad -f' here, along
with:

  # uname -Ra
  # hinv
  # scsicontrol -ivv /dev/scsi/sc0d4l0
    (replace the scsi device with the one for your CD drive.)

'hinv' will tell you what scsi bus and device your CDROM is. For
example:

  # hinv|grep CD
    CDROM: unit 4 on SCSI controller 0

So 'controller 0' means '/dev/scsi/sc0' and 'unit 4' means '.../sc0d4'
and you can just add the 'l0' on the end.

Also, please tell us what CD you are trying to mount ... A music CD? A
ISO9660 data CD? An IRIX installation CD? A packet-written UDF CD?
Some Mac HFS/ISO hybrid?

Ivan 

-- 
Ivan Rayner
ivanr@sgi.com