When I attach a USB storage device to my Solaris server, the mount point is coming up as /rmdisk/unnamed_rmdisk
Is there anyway I can have this device come up as a mounted device with a predetermined mount name eg /morespace rather than unnamed_rmdisk ? (0 Replies)
When I attach a USB storage device to my Solaris server, the mount point is coming up as /rmdisk/unnamed_rmdisk
Is there anyway I can have this device come up as a mounted device with a predetermined mount name eg /morespace rather than unnamed_rmdisk ? (2 Replies)
hi, I was wondering if there's a way to safely disconnect a usb device from computer, I ask this because in windows when you disconnect a usb pen with the safe removal, the pen light then turns off, while I tried removing the pen with solaris and the light was still on ? (2 Replies)
Hello,
I need to run an application in wine that requires write permission to a USB device. Wine users must not have root privileges. On FreeBSD this could be accomplished by adding the user to the wheel group but I am using Debian 6.0. From looking at the passwd file it is not obvious what... (6 Replies)
In linux system when a pnp usb device is plugged in then how does the system gets a notification of it?
I mean to say in linux usb system there is usb host controller above which is host controller driver above which is usb core.
So does the host controller/usb core keeps on polling the usb bus... (1 Reply)
Hi all
unixware 7.1.3 I'm afraid ! I connected a usb tape drive and it was automatically recognised in the device list (sdiconfig -l) and created devices in /dev/rmt (ctape1 etc.). I could successfully read and write to the device.
Then unplugged the usb cable and plugged it back in again... (0 Replies)
Hi,
i am developing an application on an ARM 7 architatcure with a small Linux.
i want to run tar on a usb device (~10 Mb) but it runs realy slow. the command only takes 1% of cpu usage.
is there a way to improve the tar command or is the USB-Connection the bottleneck here? (4 Replies)
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dds-dd
dds-dd(1) General Commands Manual dds-dd(1)NAME
dds-dd - tool to read a dds device.
SYNOPSIS
dds-dd [ -f device ]
DESCRIPTION
dds-dd reads a dds tape devices (DAT). Every block is read and written to stdout. A tape with unknown block size or blocks of different
size can be read.
The default device is /dev/rmt0, which may be overridden with the environment variable TAPE, which in turn may be overridden with the
-f device option. The device must be a character special file.
OPTIONS -f device
Device of the tape archive (default is /dev/rmt0). Must be a character special file connected to a dds tape device.
-V,--version
Print the version number of mt-dds to stderr and exit immediately.
--help print some screens of online help with examples through a pager and exit immediately.
EXAMPLES
Example: Read the tape and make a listing:
dds-dd | tar ft -
Example: Read the tape and make a listing:
dds-dd | cpio -it
ENVIRONMENT
The environment variable TAPE overrides the default tape device /dev/rmt0.
SEE ALSO
dds2tar(1), dds2index(1), mt(1), tar(1)HISTORY
This program was created to use it in conjunction with dds2tar.
AUTHOR
J"org Weule (weule@cs.uni-duesseldorf.de), Phone +49 211 751409. This software is available at ftp.uni-duesseldorf.de:/pub/unix/apollo
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