mounting pen drive in solaris
 

hi everyone

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

please help mounting my pen drive

thanks in advance
john k m

Sun Knowledgebase recomments fat32. http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docum...=1-61-216878-1 has instructions how to mount flash drives.

It might be you haven't a recent enough Solaris release:

http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6391828

thanks
 

hi everyone

thanks for your valuable replies, these docs will help me, i am sure
i will check this and get back to you

john k m

it is still not working
 

hi everyone

i tried as per the suggestions found in the sites
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docum...=1-61-216878-1
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6391828

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

pls help me

regards
john k m

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?

thanks
 

hi, thanks for your reply, my pen drive works superb in my windows and redhat partitions, it only doesn,t work in solaris partition

i have also checked using other pen drives, the same case

john k m

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)