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my 4GB transcend pen drive is not getting mounted in my machine I am using Solaris 10 x86, the drive is formatted with FAT16,
i have also tried formating using FAT and FAT32
when typed "rmformat" the device is getting detected, but it is showing
device type=<unknown>
i am not able to format in solaris also, i tried it using
the command "volcheck", the format tab is not active
i tried mounting using
mkdir /mnt/usb
mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c2t0d0p0 /mnt/usb &
mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c2t0d0p0:c /mnt/usb &
mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c2t0d0p0:1 /mnt/usb
but all these are giving same error as
<I/O error>
my pen drive works fine in my windows and RHEL4
/vol/dev/dsk/c2t0d0/unknown_format is the location, where
it will be mounted by default in the name unknown_format
but with no help, i got some useful commands such as mkdosfs, which are not working in my PC. I formatted my pen drive using FAT32 file system, i will once again remind you, i have solaris 10 x86, and i am having a P3 machine
I had problems with a USB mouse that didnt get detected in Solaris. But then I tried another USB mouse, and it worked fine. Maybe you could try another USB memory stick and see if it works?
Distribution: Solaris 11.4, Oracle Linux, Mint, Debian/WSL
Posts: 9,789
Rep:
You wrote you tried as per the suggestions. Did you really try using the pen drive with a recent Solaris Express release where several fat bugs are fixed ?
In any case, what does the OS report when you insert the usb device ? (dmesg)
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