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Loading and Mounting CD-ROM Disks

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HPINSTAL supports two types of CD-ROM drives: HP-IB and SCSI drives. SCSI drives are the only ones available for purchase at this time.

Loading CD-ROM Disks

The CD-ROM disk volumes are sent in a plastic case. If your system has a caddy, you need to remove the disk from the case and put it into the appropriate caddy for your CD-ROM drive. You can then load the CD-ROM disk into the drive.

Mounting CD-ROM Disks

Disks loaded into HP-IB drives are automatically recognized by the system and put online. When using an HP-IB drive, CD-ROM disks do not need to be mounted by mount commands.

If you are using a SCSI drive, you need to tell the system to put it online after inserting the CD-ROM. You need to mount CD-ROM disks onto SCSI drives by entering a mount command.

To mount a CD-ROM disk onto a SCSI drive, use the AVRSCSI MOUNT command from the INSTALL group: 

  :HELLO MANAGER.SYS,INSTALL;HIPRI
  :AVRSCSI "MOUNT ldev#"
Where ldev# is the LDEV number of the device on which you want to mount the CD-ROM disk. For example, to load a disk onto LDEV 11: 

  :AVRSCSI "MOUNT 11"
You normally do not have to explicitly dismount the disk. HPINSTAL handles this for you when it is done with the disk. If you need to specifically dismount the disk: 

  :AVRSCSI "DISMOUNT ldev#"

Dismounting CD-ROM Disks

At times, CD-ROM disks may need to be explicitly dismounted from the drive. For example, if you are running HPINSTAL from a terminal other than the system console and you didn't allow VSCLOSE, you'll have to explicitly dismount the first disk before you can load the second one into the CD-ROM drive. You may see the following message: 

  Unable to close CD-ROM volume volume_name (INSTWARN #8)
If so, you need to dismount the disk.

To dismount a CD-ROM disk from a SCSI drive: 

  :HELLO MANAGER.SYS,INSTALL;HIPRI
  :VSCLOSE volume_set_name
  :AVRSCSI "DISMOUNT ldev#"
To dismount a CD-ROM disk from an HP-IB drive: 

  :VSCLOSE volume_set_name

Checking Volume Set Status

To check on the status of the CD-ROM disks, you can use the DSTAT command. For example: 

  :DSTAT
  LDEV-TYPE STATUS VOLUME (VOLUME SET - GEN)
  ---------- -------- --------------------------
  11- 017070 LONER HPINSTAL (MPE_C.55.00_1-0)
  12- 017070 LONER HPINSTAL (MPE_C.55.00_2-0)
As shown in the example, the command output lists the logical device number and type, the drive status, the volume name (the program name), and the volume set name. The two disks in the example are not online because the status says LONER. When they are online, the status reads MASTER-RO.



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