If the Volume Manager (vold) daemon is not running, the operating system cannot automatically mount CDROM. Then, a manually steps need to be done to allow the mounting.
1. Identify the CDROM drive.
# iostat -En cxtxdx Soft Errors: 3 Hard Errors: 9 Transport Errors: 0 Vendor: SONY Product: CD-ROM CD-76776 Revision: 3.04 Serial No: Size: 0.00GB <0 bytes> Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 5 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
2. Kill the vold process by process identification number.
# pgrep vold
# pkill vold process_ID_number
3. Create the mount point.
# mkdir /cdrom
4. Mount the CDROM.
# mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/cxtxdxsx /cdrom
5. Verify the CDROM.
Additional Note:
• If the vold is running while mounting the CDROM, an error will occurred:
mount: /dev/dsk/cxtxdxsx is already mounted, /cdrom is busy, or allowable number of mount points exceeded
• An error will occurred if not define the file system type and media read-only
– mount: /dev/dsk/cxtxdxsx is not this fstype.
– mount: /dev/dsk/cxtxdxsx write-protected
