Howto Mount USB drive in Solaris 8
Hi Guys
I am new to solaris .I have Sparc 280R machine on which i have installed Solaris 8 . I need to mount my 128 MB USB drive on it.But i am unable to figure out what is the drive to mount following is my /var/adm/messages file out put.Plz help me. Regard Talat # tail /var/adm/messages Sep 23 19:17:44 nms.dancom.net.pk pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseu do-device: devinfo0 Sep 23 19:17:44 nms.dancom.net.pk genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] dev info0 is /pseudo/devinfo@0 Sep 23 19:19:40 nms.dancom.net.pk su: [ID 810491 auth.crit] 'su root ' failed for talat on /dev/pts/1 Sep 23 21:28:04 nms.dancom.net.pk usba: [ID 855233 kern.info] USB-de vice: storage@4, scsa2usb0 at bus address 3 Sep 23 21:28:04 nms.dancom.net.pk usba: [ID 349649 kern.info] King ston, DataTraveler 2.0, 0E21665013A18BD2 Sep 23 21:28:04 nms.dancom.net.pk genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] scs a2usb0 is /pci@8,700000/usb@5,3/storage@4 Sep 23 21:31:05 nms.dancom.net.pk scsi: [ID 193665 kern.info] usb_sd 0 at scsa2usb0: target 0 lun 0 Sep 23 21:31:05 nms.dancom.net.pk genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] usb _sd0 is /pci@8,700000/usb@5,3/storage@4/disk@0,0 Sep 23 21:33:06 nms.dancom.net.pk genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /pc i@8,700000/usb@5,3/storage@4/disk@0,0 (usb_sd0) online Sep 23 21:33:06 nms.dancom.net.pk genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /pc i@8,700000/usb@5,3/storage@4 (scsa2usb0) online |
Run "devfsadm -v" and see what devices show up.
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following is the output
# devfsadm -v devfsadm[413]: verbose: removing link /dev/syscon -> ../devices/pseudo/cn@0:syst ty invalid contents devfsadm[413]: verbose: symlink /dev/syscon -> ../devices/pseudo/cn@0:syscon # Regard Talat |
Okay, the device looks to be already there.
Run this now: Code:
ls -l /dev/dsk/*p0 | grep "pci@8,700000/usb@5,3/storage@4" |
Hi jlliagre
It gives # ls -l /dev/dsk/*p0 | grep "pci@8,700000/usb@5,3/storage@4" /dev/dsk/*p0: No such file or directory # Regard Talat |
Hmm, try
Code:
eject -n |
Hi
# eject -n fd -> floppy0 fd0 -> floppy0 fd1 -> floppy1 diskette -> floppy0 diskette0 -> floppy0 diskette1 -> floppy1 rdiskette -> floppy0 rdiskette0 -> floppy0 rdiskette1 -> floppy1 cd -> cdrom0 cd0 -> cdrom0 cd1 -> cdrom1 sr -> cdrom0 sr0 -> cdrom0 /dev/sr0 -> cdrom0 /dev/rsr0 -> cdrom0 Regard Talat |
Well, perhaps your Solaris release is too old to support USB storage devices.
Last thing you can try: Code:
/etc/init.d/volmgt stop Otherwise, you may want to install Solaris 10 or Express. |
Hi jlliagre
This time i got rmdisk # eject -n fd -> floppy0 fd0 -> floppy0 fd1 -> floppy1 diskette -> floppy0 diskette0 -> floppy0 diskette1 -> floppy1 rdiskette -> floppy0 rdiskette0 -> floppy0 rdiskette1 -> floppy1 cd -> cdrom0 cd0 -> cdrom0 cd1 -> cdrom1 sr -> cdrom0 sr0 -> cdrom0 /dev/sr0 -> cdrom0 /dev/rsr0 -> cdrom0 rmdisk0 -> /vol/dev/rdsk/c4t0d0/unnamed_rmdisk Regard Talat |
Okay, so you've go your device automounted, just go to /rmdisk/rmdisk0 or /rmdisk/unnamed_rmdisk.
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Dear jlliagre
When i go to this directory it showes # cd /rmdisk # ls -al total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 512 Sep 24 00:01 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 512 Sep 26 03:12 .. Regard Talat |
Too bad, let's try that now:
Code:
/etc/init.d/volmgt stop |
Following are the results
# devfsadm -v devfsadm[477]: verbose: removing link /dev/syscon -> ../devices/pseudo/cn@0:systty invalid contents devfsadm[477]: verbose: symlink /dev/syscon -> ../devices/pseudo/cn@0:syscon # ls -l /dev/dsk/*p0 | grep "pci@8,700000/usb@5,3/storage@4" /dev/dsk/*p0: No such file or directory # regard Talat |
Not that I am optimistic, but you didn't run the command I asked for:
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Try also that one: Code:
ls -l /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0* |
mine does not work. .. using SOLARIS 10, via guest OS in vmware:
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anything wrong? but i have used the usb drive in the RH guest OS with ntfs-3g and fuse |
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