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Old 04-30-2012
External HDD

I need to get an external HDD for a SUN server running Solaris 10. The Western Digital that I have will not recognize and when I went looking for drivers WD only has them for MAC and Windows. Is there a External HDD that is known to work with Unix?
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Old 04-30-2012
What kind of external hard drive? Since you don't say, I'm assuming you tried a common off-the-shelf USB device.

They will all act like generic USB block-devices as far as the OS is concerned. Manufacturers needn't bother making drivers for them since generic support will do. So the question is how to get Solaris to use a USB block device, not which "kind" will work with Solaris.
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Old 04-30-2012
Yes a common Western Digital Element. I plugged it in and did a df -h and it never showed up.
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Old 04-30-2012
New USB disks will show up in rmformatand format. df is for mounted filesystems.
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Old 04-30-2012
So is the command
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rmformat -h

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rmformat

showed the drive in vol/dev/aliasis/rmdisk but I dont know how to get to is. When I did a
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format

nothing came up.
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Old 04-30-2012
Can you post output of format and rmformat?
# 7  
Old 04-30-2012
rmformat show my drive as being vol/dev/aliasas/rmdisk.
format does not show my drive.
 
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