virtual cdrom

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:50 PM, vu pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> I am trying to mount the virtual cdrom from a remote console of a Sun Fire
> server which has RHEL5.
>
> The /var/log/messages shows :
>
> Aug  5 05:10:27 wks-175 kernel: usb 4-5: new high speed USB device using
> ehci_hcd and address 11
> Aug  5 05:10:27 wks-175 kernel: usb 4-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1
> choice
> Aug  5 05:10:27 wks-175 kernel: scsi12 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage
> devices
> Aug  5 05:10:32 wks-175 kernel:   Vendor: Virtual   Model: DVD/CD-ROM
>  Rev: 100
> Aug  5 05:10:32 wks-175 kernel:   Type:   CD-ROM
> ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> Aug  5 05:10:32 wks-175 kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 52x/52x cd/rw xa/form2
> cdda tray
> Aug  5 05:10:32 wks-175 kernel: sr 12:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type
> 5
>
> but the sg devices are of type 21 generic scsi and I cannot mount it :
>
> [root at wks-175 dev]# mount  /dev/sg1 /media
> mount: /dev/sg1 is not a block device

According to the output /dev/sr0 is your CD drive.


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