virtual cdrom

[Vu Pham]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

Sorry, I forgot to say that was the first one I tried.

[root at wks-175 ~]# mount /dev/sr0 /mnt
mount: special device /dev/sr0 does not exist
[root at wks-175 ~]#

Vu