Solaris

I have a Sun-Fire V440 running with Solaris 9 and am trying to get a WD USB Hard Drive mounted. None of the articles I've read so far have helped.

Output from rmformat:

Code:

Looking for devices...
     1. Volmgt Node: /vol/dev/aliases/rmdisk0
        Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0s2
        Physical Node: /pci@1e,600000/usb@a/storage@1/disk@0,0
        Connected Device: WD       My Passport 259F 1014
        Device Type: Removable

Output from fdisk:

Code:

fdisk /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0s2
fdisk: Cannot open device /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0s2

Output from ls -l /dev/rdsk/c*2|grep usb

Code:

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          58 Oct 25 13:44 /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0s2 -> ../../devices/pci@1e,600000/usb@a/storage@1/disk@0,0:c,raw
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          58 Oct 25 14:05 /dev/rdsk/c6t0d0s2 -> ../../devices/pci@1e,600000/usb@a/storage@2/disk@0,0:c,raw

Any help would be deeply appreciated.
Thanks.

Moderator's Comments:

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How is the disk partitioned and what filesystem is it formated with? To mount *s2 will mostly not work because in Solaris terms s2 (slice 2) is the whole disk.

I'm unable to access the drive to see the partitions. I believe the disk is formatted as NTFS.

Checkout the documentation here:
Overview of USB Devices (Solaris 8 System Administration Supplement)
It is for Solaris 8 but should also work for Solaris 9!

I will check this out and let you know how it turns out.

Would you not use format or fdisk on the disk device rather than slice 2?

Code:

fdisk /dev/c5t0d0

Robin

What version of Solaris???

Are you trying to access data already on the USB drive (from a NTFS partition) or just to reformat the device and use it on Solaris?

As you already seem to know

Code:

# rmformat -l

will give you the device node (c5t0d0)

You would then use

Code:

# fdisk

to label/partition the drive, however, fdisk will probably error unless volume management is stopped first. How to do that depends on what the version of Solaris is. It could be

Code:

# svcadm disable volfs

or

Code:

# /etc/init.d/volmgt stop

if the Solaris version is older.

BE VERY CAREFUL using fdisk if you need the data on the USB drive.

If you want to reformat you have choice to set it up as DOS/FAT or use a Solaris filesystem by setting the slice(s) up and then newfs'ing them.

Hope that helps.

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PS. Sorry, I am an idiot. Your original post says it's Solaris 9