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# 1  
Old 09-07-2011
Tools Unable to mount USB Pen drive on my Server
Hello Gurus!!

Very recently i tried to mount a USB pen drive onto my solaris 10 (X4170 model) server. As i understand, in ideal scenarios it should get mounted automatically, but it did not happen. Neither anything is shown in "iostat -En" output or "rmformat -l" about the pen drive.

I also tried stopping and starting volfs. devfadm but no luck. "cfgadm -al" shows usb-device, usb-hub connected and configured ok.

Not sure what to do next...Can anyone help me out.

Thank you..
# 2  
Old 09-07-2011
log in as root and then try reconfiguration boot

Code:
touch /reconfigure 
shutdown -y -g0 -i6

then log in back to your Solaris box and look if your USB pen drive is recognised.

Code:
echo | format

# 3  
Old 09-07-2011
i've found that waiting a long time (about 5 minutes) sometimes help to automount a usb drive. i think it's a timeout problem with one of the drivers...
# 4  
Old 09-07-2011
thank you for the replies.

@solaris_user: reconfiguration reboot is definitely an utlimate solution however, we need to achieve this online. Server is live and cannot be rebooted.

@DukeNuke2: this is something even i was guessing when i found
Quote:
Connecting device on port 5 failed
last message repeated 24 times
this in dmesg but was not sure how to verify what is it connected to port 5. Also the pen drive was left connected to the server for abt an hour.

Thank you.
# 5  
Old 09-07-2011
can you try another usb drive? i found that some drives work, while other won't...
# 6  
Old 09-07-2011
the same pen drive was accessible on an X4275 model server (automatically mounted). Anyways let me try with a different device and will post the result.
# 7  
Old 09-07-2011
You can plug the usb device in and then have a look at the system logs (dmesg) to see what the OS has to say about it.
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