[TheDogBoy]

Hello i am a newbie and I am having an issue with the mkdev command. I am trying to add a cdrom.
The command I tried to use was
mkdev -c cdrom-s ide -t dvdram -p ide -d -w 0
I get an errors that says the parent of the device does not exsit. I thought this command would create the parent dev as well as the cdrom dev.

[cdelgadop]

Hi

Do you have the cdrom device already connected and powered on (if applied) to the server ??

If so, then you can run the following command:

cfgmgr -v

this should configure your cdrom device.

Hope this helps

[TheDogBoy]

Yes the cd is attached to my 9115-505 and I ran cfgmgr -v but that did not pick up the cdrom..after i ran cfgmgr -v I did a lsdev -c but no ide cd device was found..

[Jorke]

If aix doesn't see it, it usually means it's not well connected or that it's not supported.

Try to see it in the boot sms menu as a boot device, then you know the system sees it, other wise check your cabling.

Otherwise you need to check if your cdrom is supported by aix.

regards,

Jorke

[TheDogBoy]

Ok I got this issue fixed.. The step I was missing was to use DLPAR to create the connecction to my LPAR.Once I created a connection resource w/DLPAR then I ran cfgmgr and all was good.

[gajanan]

hi
can you people tell me how to update ML in aix 5.3

[dantech75]

Do you have HMC? check the properties of the profile under I/O and ensure that Cdrom scsi slot is checked as required at first and see if it works.

Hope this help...