Sorry, but still: no. Your first output showed a location code of:

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U78CB.001.WZS0GY4-P2-D15

"U78CB.001.WZS0GY4" is a certain enclosure (probably the main one), "P2" means "Planar 2" and "D15" is the slot where the hardware is attached. The drive should be in this enclosure, but attached to the other planar.

The screen shots in the zip-file show the enclosures:

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U5877.001.9K8J244
U5877.001.9K8G410
U5877.001.9K8G349
U5877.001.9K8G801
U5802.001.9K83626
U5802.001.9K83627
U5802.001.9K83628
...

At first: which hardware is this? It looks like a very big (and old) 570 with a lot of additional RIOs (I/O drawer?) added over time. Still, the second planar of the (main?) unit doesn't show up, neither as unassigned slots nor as adapter cards in the list. So, the list is still incomplete or wrong.

It would be interesting if you could tell us a bit more about your hardware, though: what nightmare of system is this and why in Hell don't you have any VIOS on it? It would make life so much easier!

Regarding the CD-drive directly: start by trying to mount it with:

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mount /cd

which should work if the drive and everything else is defined correctly. Chances are your (Linux-inspired?) command did not work because several automatisms stood on their respective toes.

If this doesn't work, proceed:

OK, maybe you (or whoever?) created the DVD device wrong. I remember that often being a problem.

First, make sure the /cd directory over which you want to mount later is really there (yes, i know, but i have seen stranger things).

Second, remove the DVD drive entirely (rmdev -Rdl, then run cfgmgr. Next, you open smitty storage and allocate the drive.

Here is a page describing the process. Notice that things can go wrong if you don't follow this procedure. This way it has always worked for me.

I hope this helps.

bakunin