Solaris

Hi
I have a problem in installing solaris 9 in a ULTRA Enterprise 2 machine.
The cdrom does not keep the cd in. When I put the installtion cd 1 and close the tray, I can see the led blinks three times and then the tray comes out. I borrowed a set of installtion cd s from one of my friends (they worked in her solaris 10 machine) to confirm that this is not a media problem, but the result was the same.

additional tests done are given below
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When I run eject cdrom the cd tray comes out.
when I run test scsi , it does not give any error messages.
When I run test cdrom, it says
cdrom selftest failed. return code =-1
when I reun probe-scsi-all, I get some results but can't see everything
properly because the screen get updated very fast so that only last
past can be visible

please help me to solve this problem


peter

Its either you upgrade the system's firmware and try. If not, replace the cdrom drive
You might want to search the forum for clues before posting..
SF V210 CDROM drive auto eject!

thank you ...
I will try the firmware upgrade first. My next problem in this machine is I can't login to this machine (when I try root the message I get is "invalid shell"in CDE and "No shell" in caommand mode), so I don't know how to upgrade the firmware in this case...
peter

So you can't login and you can't use the cdrom... try boot from network or take the HD out and plug into other box to fix the shell issue.