Solaris

Hi, I have a firewire external hard drive that I've been using on a Mac but now want to use on my desktop computer that runs on Solaris 10, but when I plug it into the firewire port, nothing happens. I just assumed that it would mount automatically like a USB device but it doesn't. Can someone please help me out?
Thanks!

have a look at the "dmesg" and or "rmformat" output and try to mount the drive manually after stopping vold.

What kind of filesystem is used in your firewire drive ?

Sorry I don't know what kind of file system. It used to be my brother's and I used it on my Mac. I just though I could format it once I connected it the computer but it doesn't even mount.

either Start your volmgt daemon
/etc/init.d/volmgt start (check if its mounted)

OR

stop volmgt daemon
/etc/init.d/volmgt stop

iostat -En (check for which cxtxdx your device points to)
then manually mount as follows:
mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/cxtxdxs0:c /mnt

Hi, thanks for helping.

When I type "rmformat" I get:

Looking for devices...
1. Volmgt Node: /vol/dev/aliases/cdrom0
Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2
Physical Node: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@1/sd@0,0
Connected Device: HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22LP20 1.04
Device Type: DVD Reader/Writer
2. Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c6t0d0s2
Physical Node: /pci@0,0/pci8086,244e@1e/pci103c,12f1@2/unit@00094902e0511cdf/disk@0,0
Connected Device: ST312002 6A 8.54
Device Type: <Unknown>
3. Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c6t0d0p0
Physical Node: /pci@0,0/pci8086,244e@1e/pci103c,12f1@2/unit@00094902e0511cdf/disk@0,0
Connected Device: ST312002 6A 8.54
Device Type: <Unknown>

It seems to list the external drive twice but I don't know why; nothing else is connected. But sometimes it just lists it once.

When I type "iostat -En" I get:

c1t0d0 Soft Errors: 2 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: HL-DT-ST Product: DVD-RAM GH22LP20 Revision: 1.04 Serial No:
Size: 0.00GB <0 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 2 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c0t0d0 Soft Errors: 1 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SEAGATE Product: ST373454LW Revision: HPS0 Serial No:
Size: 73.41GB <73407865344 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 1 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c4t0d0 Soft Errors: 60 Hard Errors: 5 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SanDisk Product: Cruzer Micro Revision: 8.02 Serial No:
Size: 0.00GB <0 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 5 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c6t0d0 Soft Errors: 11 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: ST312002 Product: 6A Revision: 8.54 Serial No:
Size: 120.03GB <120034123776 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 11 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0


And when I type "mount -F pcfs/dev/dsk/c6t0d0s0:c /mnt" (or with c6t0d0s2) I get:

mount: I/O error

I tried it with both volm on and off.
I'm quite new to Solaris so I don't know what any of this means.

wrong controller...c6 looks like a disk.

c4t0d0s0 should be the one