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Operating Systems Solaris Can not Format USB hard drive Post 302413091 by dshakey on Wednesday 14th of April 2010 01:42:46 PM
Old 04-14-2010
Can not Format USB hard drive
Hey i have a new USB 320GB harddrive i want to use in my Solaris 10 enviroment.

i first had the drive format in windows with FAT32,
Solaris was able to auto mount this drive and everything was fine, until i realised that it would not except files greater then 4gb, due to the limitations of FAT32.

so my plan is to format the drive and create a partition with UFS.

when i try to format the drive with rmformat i get an error


LONG
Code:
-bash-3.00# rmformat -F long /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0p0
Formatting will erase all the data on disk.
Do you want to continue? (y/n)y
Format failed : I/O error

QUICK
Code:
-bash-3.00# rmformat -F quick /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0p0
Formatting will erase all the data on disk.
Do you want to continue? (y/n)y
Format failed : Operation not supported


Code:
-bash-3.00# rmformat -l
Looking for devices...
     1. Volmgt Node: /vol/dev/aliases/cdrom0
        Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2
        Physical Node: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@0/sd@0,0
        Connected Device: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4244N 2.00
        Device Type: DVD Reader
     2. Volmgt Node: /vol/dev/aliases/rmdisk0
        Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0p0
        Physical Node: /pci@0,0/pci103c,31fe@1d,7/storage@7/disk@0,0
        Connected Device: Hitachi  HTS723232L9A360
        Device Type: Removable


i have stop the volmgt and still getting the same error. can anyone please help
Last edited by pludi; 04-14-2010 at 02:57 PM.. Reason: code tags, please...
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

jazip.conf

JAZIP.CONF(5)							File Formats Manual						     JAZIP.CONF(5)

NAME

       jazip.conf - jazip(1) configuration file.

DESCRIPTION

       The /etc/jazip.conf file lists the Jaz and Zip devices that users are allowed to mount and unmount using jazip, along with the mount points
       used by jazip for each device.

       If you have more than one drive on your system, you can create a separate entry in the configuration file for each one,	and  then  specify
       the  raw  device  name  of  the drive you want to use on the command line when you invoke jazip.  If no device name is given on the command
       line, jazip will use the settings in the first entry of /etc/jazip.conf by default.

FILE FORMAT

       The format of the jazip.conf file should be mostly self-explanatory.  Each line looks like:

       /dev/sda /zip auto auto 0 0

       The first entry is the raw SCSI device name of your drive (e.g.	/dev/sda without a partition number ).	The  second  entry  is	the  mount
       point you wish to use (e.g.  /zip ).  The additional entries:

       auto auto 0 0

       are  required  but  are not user-changeable.  They are required because jazip uses standard system call to do mounting and they expect this
       format.

       The type of filesystem (e.g.  vfat or ext2 ) will be automatically detected by jazip and is not listed in /etc/jazip.conf.

CONFIGURATION SCRIPT

       See the jazipconfig(8) man page for specifics on the jazipconfig command that you can use to create /etc/jazip.

SEE ALSO

       jazip(1), jazipconfig(8)

AUTHOR

       jazip Copyright (c) 1996  Jarrod A. Smith

       This manual page by Peter S Galbraith <psg@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

																     JAZIP.CONF(5)
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