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Jay Finger <finger@convex.com> writes:
>
> Can somebody tell me what options I need to give to mount(8) so that I can
> mount the 3.0 CDROM?  I need to get to some data on the disk while in
> single-user, so letting Workspace automount the disk is not an option.

No, no one can tell you a command that will work for sure on your machine,
because the necssary parameters depend on which logical device your
CD-ROM drive is. If you have no other SCSI devices besides the hard-drive
that came inside your next, than the device will almost certainly be
"sd1", and thus you'll usually refer to the CD-ROM as "/dev/sd1a" (or
sometimes "/dev/rsd1a").

A way to check is to watch what happens when you boot, my NeXT says:

    QUANTUM PD210S Rev 508D as sd0 at sc0 target 1 lun 0
    	    Disk Label: MyDisk
	    Disk Capacity 199MB, Device Block 512 bytes
    SONY    CD-ROM CDU-541 Rev 2.6a as sd1 at sc0 target 4 lun 0
	    Disk Label: NeXTSTEP_3.0   ^^^------------------------- N.B.
	    Disk Capacity 659MB, Device Block 2048 bytes
	    Disk is Write Protected

I have my NeXT always mount the NeXTSTEP_3.0 at startup, which just meant
adding the following line to the file "/etc/fstab":

/dev/sd1a /NeXTSTEP_3.0 4.3 ro,noquota,removable 0 2

If I was giving these options to the mount command by hand, I guess the
following would work:

next_mach# mount -t 4.3 -o ro,noquota,removable /dev/sd1a /NeXTSTEP_3.0

(Although, that might be overkill, "mount /dev/sd1a /NeXTSTEP_3.0" might
be all that's required).

If you want to eject the disk, the following should work:

next_mach# umount /NeXTSTEP_3.0
next_mach# disk -e /dev/rsd1a

Finally, if you ever want to know what the "correct" parameters are for
a disk that you can automount, look at /etc/mtab when the disk is
automounted, at the very least, it should serve as a good starting point.

Hope this helps, best regards,

    Richard.
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