Has anyone had any success with using cdrecord (w/ external Plextor CDRW), and having volmgt running successfully on Solaris 8 (sparc)? Even on cdrecord's official website, they stress that for cdrecord to work with this set-up volume management must be disabled. I have a user with a Sunblade 150, who very much wants to use both his internal cdrom, and floppy, while also utilizing his plextor running cdrecord. I wrote a script that will successfully send a stop or start to /etc/init.d/volmgt at the users request. I even have it so that the user's real & effective ID is changed to root (for testing). It does work effectively, but it seems that volmgt is very flaky. Working sometimes, and not other times. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank You, and have a great day. Nate Vaughn DCT UNIX LAB DCT Systems Group ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ First, please let me thank you all for the excellent replies. Both Frode Stromsvag, and Lieven marchand hit it on the head. I also received many e-mails from others wanting to know the solution, because it is a known problem. At any rate, both Frode, and Lieven, pointed to the vold.conf file. Basically the line that reads: " use cdrom drive /dev/rdsk/c*s2 dev_cdrom.so cdrom%d ". Needs to be edited to be more specific. We do not need volmgt to control the CDRW, just the cdrom, and floppy, so we edited for only the needed cdrom (/dev/rdsk/c0t1*s2). I have confirmed that this does work properly. It seems that the answer was simple and clear. I'll slap myself for that one. But thank you all very much. And have a great day. Thank You, and have a great day. Nate Vaughn DCT UNIX LAB DCT Systems Group Frode Stromsvag's Comments------------------------------------------------------------- Make notice of the line use cdrom drive /dev/rdsk/c0t6*s2 dev_cdrom.so cdrom%d in the attached /etc/vold.conf file. By specifying the devices you want to be controlled by volume management and not including the CDRW device you are ready to go...... Restart volume manager after having done the changes /etc/init.d/volmgt stop /etc/init.d/volmgt start ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- ------Lieven Marchand's Comments-------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- Have you tried removing the plextor from /etc/vold.conf? _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Sep 24 13:55:37 2003
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