E220R CD-ROM drive doesn't work

[ohemjay]

Hi,

I purchased an E220R from eBay recently, and everything is working great, except that I can't get the CD drive to work. Nothing happens when I hit the eject button, and the light on the drive is always lit amber (not green). I'm not very well versed in Solaris at all, so I am also unable to determine what the device path for the CD drive is. Does it sound like I have a bad CD drive, or am I not loading a needed driver, etc? Thanks!

 

[KenCunningham]

Does the CD drive appear if you do a df -k? If so, can you eject cd or eject cd0 (make sure you're not sat on the cd filesystem at the time). Is there any reference to it in your /etc/vfstab? It should also appear somewhere in the /dev/dsk directory.

Get back to us with any results of the above.

 

[guggach]

drvconfig; disks
or
boot -r

is E220R-CD supported by solaris ??



guggach

 

[ohemjay]

The CD does not appear in df -k, because it is not mounted. Both 'eject cd' and 'eject cd0' return 'cdrom0: No such file or directory'. There is no reference to it in /etc/vfstab. Also, I am unable to determine which device it is in /dev/dsk

I tried running drvconfig and disks, with no results. Since I can't get the drive to eject through the eject button, and the activity light is on solid amber, could it be possible that Solaris is not loading a driver? I am running SunOS 5.8, by the way.

 

[daFranze]

Test CD-Drive:

halt the system (init 0; halt; etc...)

run 'boot cdroom -sw'
what is the result?

Onother way:
run in OBP/ok Prompt:
setenv auto-boot? false
reset or reset-all (depends on OBP Version)
probe-scsi-all
-> is there a CDROM Drive?

The drive may be defect or somebody replaced the (defect?) Sun Drive by a new original Toshiba (or other supplier); these drives do not work properly in a Sun (different Firmware)...

Best Regards, Franz
--
Solaris System Manager from Munich, Germany
I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years