How to mount MO drive?

UNIX SCO
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Hello,
I have a PC with SCO operating system with a graphical program that access MO drive to write some log data. This program automatically format and write data on MO disck. MO drive was working good before but now when i try to write data, MO drive starts to be busy but after some minutes i get a fault :

"MOD can not be partitioned".

User manual of the program says in this case i should use another MOD, i tried to use 10 MODs and nothing changed.
I have little information about SCO. I need to mount and write a MOD in MO drive to check health of MO drive.
How can i do this? any idea?
Thank you.

2

Can you read a disk?
What is the make and model of the drive and the cartridges?
Can you post the contents of /usr/adm/messages since the last system boot?

3

No, when try to read MO disk the drive starts to be busy for some minute and after that shows a message that indicate MOD is corrupted.

MO Drive:
SONY MO DRIVE with Model no : SMO-F551.
MOD is a SONY product too with size of 5.25".

Mon Jul 14 09:10:36 2014
              SCO OpenServer(TM) Release 5

          (C) 1976-2000 The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
          (C) 1980-1994 Microsoft Corporation
                  All rights reserved.

            For complete copyright credits,
           enter "copyrights" at the command prompt.

device    address    vec dma  comment
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%kernel   -          -   -  rel=3.2v5.0.6 kid=2000-07-27
%cpu      -          -   -  unit=1 family=15 
%cpuid    -          -   -  unit=1 vend=GenuineIntel tfms=0:15:4:9(0)
%fpu      -         13   -  unit=1 type=80387-compatible
%pci      0x0CF8-0x0CFF      -   -  am=1 sc=0 buses=10
%PnP      -          -   -  nodes=0
%clock    -          -   -  type=TSC/2800099091Hz
%serial   0x03F8-0x03FF      4   -  unit=0 type=Standard nports=1 base=0 16550A/16
%console  -          -   -  unit=vga type=0 num=12 scoansi=1 scroll=50
%adapter  0x4000-0x40FF      9   -  type=alad ha=0 bus=0 id=7 fts=sto
WARNING: floppy: CMOS indicates no diskette drives installed
%kbmouse  0x0060-0x0064     12   -  type=Keyboard|PS/2 mouse (wheel) id=0x03
%parallel 0x0378-0x037A      7   -  unit=0
%adapter  0x0170-0x0177     15   -  type=IDE ctlr=secondary dvr=wd
%bcme0    -         11   -  chip=BCM5751 mem=F3000000 addr=00:30:05:cb:de:2a
NOTICE: bcme0: Firmware version 5751-v3.47a
%cd-rom   -          -   -  type=IDE ctlr=sec cfg=mst dvr=Srom->wd
%tape     -          -   -  type=S ha=0 id=2 lun=0 bus=0 ht=alad
%disk     0x01F0-0x01F7     14   -  type=W0 unit=0 cyls=16709 hds=255 secs=63
NOTICE: bcme0 (slot:0 port:1): Link is up (100Mbps, Full Duplex)
mem: total = 1965692k, kernel = 94104k, user = 1871588k
swapdev = 1/41, swplo = 0, nswap = 3952000, swapmem = 1976000k
Autoboot from rootdev = 1/42, pipedev = 1/42, dumpdev = 1/41
kernel: Hz = 100, i/o bufs = 64000k (high bufs = 62976k)

Mon Jul 14 09:11:03 2014
NOTICE: Srom: MODESENSE writing SCSI CD-ROM 0 dev 47/0 (ha=1 bus=0 id=0 lun=0) block=747514
        Drive not ready: No media present
        Status: host=01 target=01, Key: 02 3A 00
4

Are there any messages in /usr/adm/messages prior to the first line that shows in the portion that you posted (in other words from yesterday.)
The system sees the device as a cdrom. You can check in /etc/conf/cf.d/mscsi for the name, or run mkdev cdrom..
It is my opinion that the drive has failed. Fortunately, they seem to be readily available, both new and refurbished.

5

Hi,
I removed MO drive and it's adapter then i install it on windows xp by using ASPI solution that i found here.
Now Mo drive is added in My computer window as Optical drive. I can eject a MOD from it but when trying to open media, this error happened:
"the request could not performed because i/o device error."
Is it possible that i need to configure SCSI adapter or some thing like that?
Thank you

6

Your drive is damaged. Send it out to be repaired, or replace it. You don't know if you are also damaging the disks by continually trying to read them.

7

The MO Drive does not involved with MOD. When i insert a MOD, MO drive begins to involve for 30s but after that there is no action even when i click on drive letter just "the request could not performed because i/o device error." message happens.
Are you insist yet that MO drive is damaged and there is no other way?
Thank you