From: Karl Jones (kjones@DBS1.COM)
Date: Wed Nov 12 2003 - 10:14:45 EST
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Thanks for all of those who responded about this.
After messing with /etc/filesystems and other things, I ended up rebooting.
The cd-rom drive works properly now.
> On an AIX 4.3 system, regardless of the CD involved, I get the following
> when I try to mount. I have looked into every suggestion listed in the
> documentation for troubleshooting this error. All the lights on the
CD-ROM
> unit itself look good to go and the full text of the message doesn't seem
> to
> point in that direction. I did recently modify the /etc/filesystems file
> and I have been updating bos filesets. Do I need to run some kind of
> utility afterwards or restart a subsystem? I am hesitant to reboot when I
> have trouble using my CD-ROM!
>
> Suggestions?
>
> # mount /cdrom
> mount: 0506-324 Cannot mount /dev/cd0 on /cdrom: Cannot run a file that
> does
> not have a valid format.
> # cd /cdrom
> # pwd
> /cdrom
> #
> # ls -l /dev/cd0
> br--r--r-- 1 root system 12, 0 Feb 25 2000 /dev/cd0
>
> The contents of /etc/filesystems include the following:
> /cdrom:
> dev = /dev/cd0
> vfs = cdrfs
> mount = false
> options = ro
> account = false
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